Enter a search term and preview Coding Clinic content here! ?
Type
A 69-year-old man with recurrent incisional hernia is admitted to undergo an incisional herniorrhaphy with mesh. An incision was made in the midline and carried through the skin and subcutaneous ti...
No, do not a...
A 65-year-old man was admitted and underwent emergent surgery secondary to incarcerated ventral hernia due to adhesions. The surgeon carried out laparoscopic ventral hernia repair with mesh. Accord...
In this inst...
The patient had uterine adenocarcinoma and was admitted for surgery. The surgeon noted in the dictated report that numerous adhesions between the abdominal wall and uterus were carefully and thorou...
Yes. Assign ...
A patient underwent exploratory laparotomy with lysis of adhesions and colostomy with removal of polyp of the ascending colon and repair of umbilical hernia. The lysis of adhesions was undertaken c...
No, do not a...
How would a diagnosis of “postoperative seroma” be coded in ICD-10-CM?
...Currently, I...
During the administration of bamlanivimab, a patient had a reaction to the medication causing the infusion to be discontinued. Is it appropriate to append modifier 52, Reduced Services, to...
If the infus...
A patient with spinal stenosis underwent placement of an interspinous process distractor several months prior for stenosis at L3-4 and L4-5 which provided only short term relief. The patient now pr...
There is no ...
Patient with a previous left sacral InterStim™ system was experiencing malfunction and migration of the lead, urinary incontinence, and pain. A decision was made to remove the left sacral neurost...
Assign CPT c...
A patient with endometrial adenocarcinoma underwent a total laparoscopic robotic-assisted hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, sentinel lymph node mapping with indocyanine green (ICG)...
Based on the...
A patient presented with a left ruptured plantar plate, dorsal contracture with subluxation and ruptured flexor tendons of the second metatarsophalangeal joint. Both dorsal and plantar incisions we...
Assign CPT c...