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How is an open posterior colporrhaphy/rectocele repair coded in PCS? Should one or two codes be assigned for this procedure?
...In the conte...
What is the appropriate ICD-10-PCS code, when a combination of drugs is administered during a single injection (e.g., corticosteroid and local anesthetic)?
...If two subst...
We are requesting that the Coding Clinic Editorial Advisory Board revisit advice published about non-Candida albicans sepsis. The Alphabetic Index under the term “Sepsis, candida,” directs to c...
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Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2013, advised the assignment of codes that describe the destruction of the right and left pulmonary veins (025T3ZZ and 025S3ZZ), for catheter ablation around ...
Upon further...
An 18-month-old patient presents with a brachial plexus birth palsy. Based on other symptoms the patient presents for nerve transfer surgery to improve elbow flexion and shoulder function. Neuropla...
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A 7-month-old patient was seen at our facility with a left neck lymphatic malformation presenting for sclerotherapy. Can you clarify whether it would be appropriate to report an injection code (CPT...
Presently, t...
Patient is seen in multiple separate clinics. One clinic has a visit level, HCPCS code G0463, Hospital outpatient clinic visit for assessment and management of a patient, and the other cli...
Under the ho...
Under OPPS, is it appropriate for a hospital to report the placement of the On-Q Pain Pump when it is placed during an operative procedure or is it considered inherent to the primary procedure? If ...
Based on the...
This patient had a supracervical hysterectomy several years ago and is now coming in for a laparoscopic sacrocervicopexy, which is the same as a sacrocolpopexy (CPT code 57425) except that the cerv...
Sacrocervico...