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A patient with a left displaced bimalleolar ankle fracture, with syndesmotic injury underwent an open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) of both the fracture and syndesmotic injury. A lateral incis...
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Patient who had a total thyroidectomy nine years ago, now presents for removal of a paralaryngeal neck mass with right thyroid tumor mass. Incision was made in the previous thyroidectomy scar. The ...
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The Central Office for HCPCS has received questions relating to the advice published in Coding Clinic for HCPCS, First Quarter 2019, page 5, that advised the assignment of CPT code 61635, ...
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A patient with a lateral tongue lesion presented for biopsies and laser ablation of the lesion. The procedure began with a laryngoscopy utilizing the GlideScope with no additional lesions identifie...
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A patient was admitted to Observation and a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line was placed for intravenous (IV) infusion administration services. The following morning, labs were ord...
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A patient presented for a bone marrow aspiration and biopsy. The documentation states that an 11-gauge needle was advanced into the right ilium and a routine bone marrow aspiration and biopsy was p...
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A patient with atrial fibrillation, underwent external cardioversion with no conversion and remained in atrial flutter with a ventricular rate of 120. The patient was brought to the electrophysiolo...
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A patient with chondral lesions of the lateral trochlea and patella presents for placement of matrix-induced autologous chrondrocyte implantation (MACI) in the right knee via arthrotomy, into the c...
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An infant had umbilical cord blood collected for blood typing and testing of blood gases shortly following birth. Would it be appropriate to assign code 6A550ZT, Pheresis of cord blood stem cells, ...
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A patient with a bullet wound to the right forehead sustained a fracture of the anterior and posterior table of the frontal sinus, fracture of the right superior orbital roof, and interruption of t...
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