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A patient experienced infiltration of the IV in her left wrist that caused significant swelling of her forearm and hand. At bedside, an intercompartmental pressure reading was performed to rule out...
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A patient was seen for possible compartment syndrome following an injury to the left tibia. Interstitial fluid pressures were taken of the four compartments of the leg using a wick catheter.
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The patient presents for robotic cholecystectomy with Firefly™ indocyanine green (ICG) cholangiogram. Firefly™ ICG imaging uses infrared technology. How would the intraoperative cholangiogram u...
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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...
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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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What is the appropriate CPT code assignment for maggot therapy?
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