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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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A patient with end stage renal disease (ESRD) presents with recurrent thrombosis of his left arteriovenous (AV) graft. At surgery, the polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) graft was dissected free at its...
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The patient has gross tumor involvement of the presacral space due to rectal cancer. Following low anterior resection, the omentum was dissected from the transverse colon from right to left leaving...
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The patient underwent open cholecystectomy with needle biopsy of the liver. How is the needle biopsy of liver coded? Is this an open or closed biopsy?
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The Central Office has received several requests to clarify advice published in Coding Clinic, Third Quarter, 2015, page 21, about encephalopathy due to diabetic hypoglycemia. When the ter...
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Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter 2014, pages 47-48 clarified that when peri-pulmonary vein catheter ablation is performed to treat atrial fibrillation, code 02583ZZ, Destruction of conduction...
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An issue was published in Coding Clinic, Third Quarter 2014 regarding a modified left atrial Maze procedure performed during a coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The published advice wa...
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A 55-year-old woman presents to the hospital with a five-day history of abdominal pain, fever and chills. An exploratory laparotomy was performed which revealed a perforated appendix. The entire ap...
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A 69-year-old patient, who was diagnosed with volvulus of the right colon, underwent right colectomy. Would separate codes be assigned for the resection of the cecum with appendix and excision of t...
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A patient, status post right hemi-craniectomy, underwent a right hemi-cranioplasty to repair the cranial defect. In the process, two small dural rents were noted and repaired primarily. The cranial...
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