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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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a triple endoscopy is performed to determine the extent of head and neck malignancy, would it be appropriate to assign codes for all three scopes when documentation supports separate scopes and app...
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A patient was seen in our sleep lab for sleep study, which resulted in a diagnosis of sleep apnea and an order for a home Automatic Positive Airway Pressure (APAP) Titration Study in order to deter...
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A patient with a cyst on the radial border of the right index finger presented for excision of the cyst. A T-shaped incision was made over the distal phalanx and skin flaps were elevated. The cyst ...
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Patient with tibial plateau insufficiency fractures presents for treatment. Bilateral knee arthroscopic debridement/shaving of the medial femoral condyle, patella and synovial thickening was perfor...
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A patient with previous history of low-grade superficial urothelial carcinoma underwent a transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) in March of 2014. Since that time, she has had several sub...
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A patient with dysphagia and a Zenker’s diverticulum was scheduled to undergo a transoral endoscopic Zenker’s diverticulostomy. According to the operative report, utilizing the CO2 laser, the p...
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