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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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There were no Ask the Editor questions published in the Fourth Quarter 2005 volume of AHA Coding Clinic for HCPCS.
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A patient with a history of bilateral mastectomy followed by tissue expander presented with acute swelling of the left breast. She was diagnosed with acute postoperative hematoma which was determin...
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A 63-year-old patient presented to the office for her annual eye examination. She is asymptomatic but ophthalmoscopy showed newly found signs of early stage dry macular degeneration with drusen in ...
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A patient with previously diagnosed hearing loss is seen for her annual audiological evaluation. She has history of left tympanic membrane perforation due to middle ear infection that resulted in m...
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A patient with pulsatile tinnitus of the right ear was diagnosed with a glomus jugular tumor within the temporal bone at the right jugular foramen. The patient agreed to treat the condition by redu...
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A 60-year-old male was admitted to the hospital with sudden onset of left-sided weakness, severe headache, slurred speech and left facial droop, and increased blood pressure (260/172). The patient ...
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