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An ESRD patient was on his way to his ESRD facility for a regularly scheduled dialysis. The patient experienced substernal chest pain and before reaching the ESRD facility, the patient stopped at t...
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A patient suffering from severe dehydration presents to the ED of a local hospital. It is determined that the patient is in acute renal failure and requires dialysis. The patient receives dialysis ...
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Can you round up to the nearest whole number when 2 mg of a drug is administered and the code descriptor specifies up to 10 mg?
...Yes, for exa...
Our doctors inject patients with Kenalog, J3301, Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg, and other steroid injections. If a patient is injected bilaterally in t...
The HCPCS J-...
How do you report units of a “Not Otherwise Classified” drug?
...When reporti...
Our facility is performing carboplatin or cistplatin desensitization for patients who have reacted to either drug according to the attached protocol. The desensitization procedure is a combination ...
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Our facility needs clarification regarding how to properly report HCPCS code range G0416–G0419 (surgical pathology, prostate) and CPT code 88305, Level IV — Surgical pathology, gross and mi...
CMS requires...
When performing two-staged vein transposition with either the upper arm basilic or cephalic vein for an AV fistula, what is the correct CPT code to report for each individual part of the staged pro...
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Is it correct to assign a code for the repair of an iatrogenic skin tear created during surgery? An open reduction with internal fixation (ORIF) was performed on an open fracture of the distal radi...
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Patient presents to have cryoablation of the suprascapular nerve. A 16-gauge cryoablation probe was placed through an outer cannula and was utilized to stimulate the area of the scapula, which prod...
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