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A patient was admitted with a ruptured infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm and underwent an Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair (EVAR). A Gore® Excluder® graft was deployed in the main...
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A patient with end stage renal disease (ESRD) presents with recurrent thrombosis of his left arteriovenous (AV) graft. At surgery, the polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) graft was dissected free at its...
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The patient has gross tumor involvement of the presacral space due to rectal cancer. Following low anterior resection, the omentum was dissected from the transverse colon from right to left leaving...
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The patient underwent open cholecystectomy with needle biopsy of the liver. How is the needle biopsy of liver coded? Is this an open or closed biopsy?
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On the wound care progress note the physician documented that an excisional debridement of the skin of the buttock was carried out. Would this be coded as excisional debridement?
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The physician performed excisional debridement of a coccyx wound down to the fascia and including bone. How should this debridement be coded?
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In terms of coding excisional debridement, does dissection mean the same as excisional? For example, the provider’s documentation states: “The debridement was sharp using knife dissection.”&n...
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