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A 72-year-old female patient had a two week history of painful lesions on her thighs and pannus. Over the next two days, this evolved to bruising. The bruises spread onto the buttocks and pannus, f...
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An 18-year-old patient with a recurrent aneurysmal cyst of the right pubic ramus underwent curettage, burring and synthetic grafting of aneurysmal bone cyst, right pubic ramus, using Mastergraft gr...
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In ICD-10-PCS, how is intrauterine pressure monitoring during labor coded?
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The patient had a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt placed percutaneously with laparoscopic
assistance. The physician performed a craniotomy with tunneling of the subcutaneous catheter. The surgeo...
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A 62-year-old male patient underwent urgent coronary artery bypass grafting. During the surgery,
division of a band of muscle restricting the distal left anterior descending coronary artery was ...
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The patient had a normal vaginal delivery and experienced postpartum bleeding. The provider documented that a 50 ml clot was evacuated from the lower uterine segment (LUS), and the fundus was firm ...
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A patient was seen for catheter ablation due to symptomatic atrial fibrillation. A diagnostic intracardiac electrophysiology study (EPS) with mapping and isolation of the four pulmonary veins was p...
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The patient suffered an unstable fracture of the cervical spine. Tongs were applied and left in place in order to stabilize the fracture. What is the ICD-10-PCS procedure code for application of to...
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A 61-year-old male is six years status post repair of left ankle fracture. He had failure of the top screws and eventually developed a varus deformity with arthritis. He presents for surgical inter...
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Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS, Second Quarter 2013, page 39, advised to assign codes: 0RS1XZZ,
Reposition cervical vertebral joint, external approach, and 2W60X0Z, Traction of head us...
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