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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...
Based on the...
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...
Prior to Jan...
Would an incision have to be made in order to report CPT codes 28190-28193 when coding emergency department visits on the facility side? For example: A a nail shot through his foot by a nail gun. T...
To report CP...
A patient presents as an outpatient for an endoscopic polypectomy. Anesthesia was administered and the colonoscopy was begun however because of poor colon preparation the colon could not be examine...
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A patient underwent an aortoiliac and femoral angiogram in addition to a selective left renal angiogram at our facility.
Would it be appropriate to code fluoroscopic imaging with the angiogra...
Yes, it woul...
A 72-year old patient with severe multivessel coronary artery disease, status post redo coronary artery bypass surgery, is seen at our facility to undergo a left heart catheterization with right an...
No, it would...
A patient presents for pre-admit screening prior to a gastrointestinal (GI) scope.
During the pre-admit process, the patient is found to have a past history of subacute bacterial endocarditis...
No, it would...
A patient received a full thickness debridement with opening of the bone cortex for a nonhealing diabetic foot ulcer. She is also scheduled to receive implantation of Apligraft following the debrid...
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