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Patient is seen in multiple separate clinics. One clinic has a visit level, HCPCS code G0463, Hospital outpatient clinic visit for assessment and management of a patient, and the other cli...
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Under OPPS, is it appropriate for a hospital to report the placement of the On-Q Pain Pump when it is placed during an operative procedure or is it considered inherent to the primary procedure? If ...
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This patient had a supracervical hysterectomy several years ago and is now coming in for a laparoscopic sacrocervicopexy, which is the same as a sacrocolpopexy (CPT code 57425) except that the cerv...
Sacrocervico...
Is malnutrition considered integral to chronic illnesses like cancer? For example, if a provider documents malnutrition in a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy may malnutrition be coded se...
While loss o...
How should malnutrition that progresses in severity be coded? For example, moderate protein calorie malnutrition is documented on admission but progresses to severe protein calorie malnutrition dur...
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There are various clinical criteria for malnutrition and payers may require different criterions for reporting malnutrition. Which clinical criteria should coding professionals use when reporting a...
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There are various clinical criteria for malnutrition and payers may require different criterions for reporting malnutrition. Which clinical criteria should coding professionals use when reporting a...
It is outsid...
There are new ASPEN clinical indicators for preterm and neonate malnutrition. Would it be appropriate to assign codes based solely on the ASPEN clinical indicators for preterm and neonate malnutrit...
No. The assi...
How should severe malnourishment/severely malnourished be coded given that “malnourish” is not found in the Alphabetic Index? Can we assume this is synonymous to severe malnutrition?
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The attending physician states “malnutrition” with unspecified severity in the record. The final impression on the dietitian’s consultation was “Severe Malnutrition.” Could the malnutriti...
No, there ar...