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Patient had a previous excisional biopsy of the mid-upper back. This proved to be a poorly differentiated possibly metastatic desmoplastic spindle cell melanoma into the soft tissues of back. The p...
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A patient was seen at our facility with a diagnosis of Bartholin’s cyst. She was scheduled to undergo an aspiration of the cyst. It is a common procedure; however, there doesn’t appear to be a ...
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A hospital-employed nurse or technician may perform a procedure in an emergency department or clinic that was ordered by a physician, examples of these services include, but are not limited to, dru...
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Is CPT code 17999, Unlisted procedure, skin, mucous membrane and subcutaneous tissue, accurate for facility reporting of Lap Band adjustments performed at a facility under fluoroscopy, whe...
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A patient presents for evaluation of wounds that have been there for approximately 3 weeks. The wounds are described as “non healing (graft failure) secondary to burn from electrocution.” The p...
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Our facility has had a number of pacemaker pocket revisions where the pocket is relocated to a submuscular site rather than enlarging the existing subcutaneous pocket. Since the pocket revision CPT...
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An esophagogastroduodenoscopy was performed with balloon dilation to open an esophageal stricture. After three attempts, the balloon dilation was unsuccessful. Jumbo biopsy forceps were then used t...
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The issue presented is the request to report CPT code 47370, Laparoscopy, surgical, ablation of 1 or more liver tumor(s); radiofrequency, when instead of radiofrequency, microwave is utili...
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Do the four new X modifiers apply only for Medicare reporting and Modifier -59 only for reporting to other payers?
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We have always noted once a burn always a burn that you are treating however, that may not be the case every time and we would like some clarification to help us decide when Burn Care would be util...
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