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A patient with long standing recalcitrant warts on both feet and hands is seen at our facility because the warts are becoming more painful. An excision of a large mosaic wart on the plantar aspect ...
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A patient was seen at our facility for an arthroscopic anterior capsulolabral repair and an arthroscopic remplissage and rotator cuff repair. We were instructed that the arthroscopic remplissage pr...
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Patient with a gunshot wound had a King tube placed by paramedics and arrived in the emergency room (ER) as a code blue. However, the King tube, placed by paramedics, was removed and an 8.0 endotra...
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Is there a significant difference between an intravenous (IV) versus subcutaneous (SQ) formulation for Stelara. Should the IV formulation for Stelara be submitted under HCPCS code J3357 or HCPCS co...
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Is an intravenous (IV) piggyback of a therapeutic substance coded as an infusion or an injection?
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What is the difference between an IV injection of an antibiotic and an IV infusion of the same medication?
...Injections a...
This 31 year-old patient who is employed by the United States Post Office is being seen for anthrax exposure. She has no current medical complaints. However, due to the anthrax exposure her physici...
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A patient was seen at our facility due to possible anthrax exposure. A new rapid anthrax test was conducted. The results were negative. What are the appropriate code assignments for this case?
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In the Second Quarter HCPCS Coding Clinic, “Lets talk about Modifiers”, it was stated that modifier -50 should only be appended to surgical procedures.
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We are billing for an ambulatory surgical facility. We have revenue codes for many of the services provided at our facility but we have do not know which revenue codes are applicable for the operat...
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