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What is the correct ICD-10-PCS root operation for revision of right total ankle replacement? Is the correct root operation “Revision” or “Removal” and “Replacement” when a portion of th...
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A 45-year-old patient, who was diagnosed with scleroderma, severe gastroparesis, weight loss, severe malnutrition, and severe malabsorption, was admitted for total parenteral nutrition and placemen...
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A 10-year-old girl was admitted for intravenous immunoglobulin infusion. The patient has pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disease associated with streptococcal infection (PANDAS), attention de...
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What are the correct ICD-10-CM codes and POA indicator for an unstageable pressure ulcer in which an eschar is removed during the patient’s stay to reveal either stage III or stage IV pressure ul...
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Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter 2016, page 149, states “A facility may require that a physician use a particular clinical definition or set of criteria when establishing a diagnosis”. Wo...
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When a diagnostic percutaneous left heart catheterization is performed, along with right and left coronary arteriography and left ventriculogram using nonionic iso-osmolar contrast, such as Visipaq...
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A patient with unstable angina underwent left coronary angiography, right coronary angiography, left heart catheterization with ventriculography, and insertion of a drug-eluting stent. Myocardial F...
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A 49-year-old patient on hemodialysis for end-stage renal disease presented with central vein stenosis and was taken to the operating room for creation of a left arm arteriovenous graft with a HeRO...
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Please advise how to code pressure injury in ICD-10-CM. There is no entry in the alphabetic index for pressure injury. In April 2016, the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) announced a ...
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A patient was admitted with a ruptured infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm and underwent an Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair (EVAR). A Gore® Excluder® graft was deployed in the main...
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