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A patient with osteoarthrosis presents for hip pain management. Under fluoroscopic guidance, the site for intra-articular injection was marked. The skin was prepped and draped and local anesthesia ...
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A patient with squamous cell carcinoma in two locations of the left ear was brought to our outpatient facility to undergo an excision of the adjacent lesions. The excision involved skin and subcuta...
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A patient with a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was seen at our facility and deemed a candidate for fast track transtracheal oxygen catheter placement. Our coders assigne...
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A patient who underwent an ankle fusion previously was seen at our facility with areas of localized tenderness of the medial ankle. Work-up revealed a prominent screw head as the cause of the local...
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Can a transfusion code be reported for blood products or derivatives, such as Albumin?
...No. It would...
A 64-year-old female, who was diagnosed with ampullary adenoma, presents for open standard Whipple procedure. Due to the malignant behavior of this tumor, a diagnostic laparoscopy was performed fir...
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A 77-year-old female presents due to carcinoma of the head of pancreas. The patient had a previous history of cholecystectomy twenty years ago. During surgery, the provider noted that the tumor was...
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A 65-year-old female, who had previously undergone laparoscopic cholecystectomy and diagnosed with ampullary adenocarcinoma, presented for a Whipple procedure. During surgery, a midline abdominal i...
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A patient with neuroendocrine carcinoma of the pancreas was admitted for surgery. After removal of the central pancreas, the decision was made to perform a pancreaticogastrostomy. The neck of the p...
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We have been advised by an outside source that we are to assign code B20, Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease, for every patient who is HIV positive and is treated for any condition that is ...
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