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A 67 year old female patient presents for laparoscopic repair of a right inguinal hernia. A midline in...
Traditionally low osmolar contrast material (LOCM) HCPCS code range Q9965-Q9967 and high osmolar contr...
Our facility needs clarification regarding how to correctly assign colonoscopy codes for ablation, destruction, and rem...
Patient with diabetes, end-stage renal disease, and dialysis dependent, has developed ischemic hand ul...
A 38 year old female with a history of subtotal colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis due to ulcerative colitis presents to our facility for proctoscopy and ileoscopy with biopsy. The patient ...
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A patient presents for an excision of a lesion on the back. The surgeon fails to document the lesion size or the margins in the operative report. The pathology report has the total size of th...
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A patient with a history of a total laryngectomy and tracheoesophageal puncture was seen for a blocked tracheoesophageal fistula and aphonia. Previous attempts in the office to clear the fist...
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A patient with cataract of the left eye presents for cataract extraction. It was also noted prior to surgery that the patient had a significant amount of astigmatism due to a pterygium.  ...
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A patient with pancreatic and biliary stents presents for removal of the stents via esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). The physician uses a videoduodenoscope and removes both the biliary and p...
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A 24 year old patient with sphincter of Oddi dysfunction presents for removal of a biliary stent via an EGD. A videoendoscope is inserted into the oral cavity and multiple biopsies were taken...
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