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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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How would a diagnosis of “postoperative seroma” be coded in ICD-10-CM?
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A 30-year-old patient with diet-controlled gestational diabetes presented at 40 weeks gestation for induction of labor. The patient was considered a candidate for cervical ripening using mechanical...
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A patient presented for cardiac stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for the treatment of recurrent ventricular tachycardia (VT). The noninvasive cardiac SBRT was delivered to the localized target...
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An adult patient presented for follow-up of multiple medical conditions. The provider documented class 3 obesity as one of the patient’s diagnoses. Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2022, pa...
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An adult patient presented for follow-up of multiple medical conditions. The provider documented morbid obesity and class 3 obesity. Previous Coding Clinic advice instructed that morbid ob...
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A patient with a recently diagnosed 16-week intrauterine fetal demise, presented at 20 weeks gestation for suction dilation and curettage. After the procedure, the patient experienced hemorrhagic s...
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