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How is a diagnosis of "chronic depression" coded?
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Does ICD-10-PCS generally distinguish minimally invasive approaches to surgery?
...No. Neither ...
How would a documented diagnosis of “smoker” be coded in ICD-10-CM? Should it be coded as tobacco use or dependence?
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Can you please define when to use nicotine dependence "uncomplicated", "in remission", "with withdrawal", "with other nicotine-induced disorders" and "with unspecified nicotine-induced disorders? T...
Although nic...
A patient, who has been a cigarette smoker for 20+ years, presents with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Would it be appropriate for the coder to assume that the COPD was caused by the...
No, it is no...
The patients are two-year-old thoraco-omphalopagus conjoined twins. The twins are attached at the anterior thorax and the abdomen and have a fused liver. They underwent complex surgery to
separa...
"Conjoined t...
What is the ICD-10-PCS root operation for bone marrow biopsy?
...Biopsy of bo...
A patient with moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma status post right upper lobectomy presents due to enlarging mediastinal nodes and planned bronchoscopy with fine needle aspiration of the lym...
For the tran...
A patient with hematemesis presents for esophagogastro-duodenoscopy. The patient is found to have esophageal varices, and therefore, ligation of esophageal varices was performed using bands placed ...
Esophageal v...
A patient was seen for a balloon sinuplasty. The sinus endoscope was introduced into the left nasal cavity and a balloon was utilized to dilate the left frontal sinus outflow tract in three locatio...
Since there ...