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Patient presents for insertion of bilateral ureteral stents via endoscopy through an existing ileal conduit. The flexible cystoscope was inserted into the ureteral conduit, contrast was injected an...
The stents w...
Patients at our facility have breast lesion excisions to a depth that includes skin and subcutaneous tissue and some that require resection to the muscle. Some of the lesions are identified by a lo...
The CP...
A patient was seen at our facility for a pocket repositioning of an InterStim generator. Our coders have a dilemma regarding the correct code assignment for this procedure.
Neither the...
Based on the...
What would the correct code assignment be for the dilation of a sleeve gastrectomy? Some of our coders have assigned CPT code 43245 however; the other coders feel that this code is reported for dil...
Based on the...
Is it appropriate to report CPT code 76942, Ultrasonic guidance for needle placement (e.g., biopsy, aspiration, injection, localization device) imaging supervision and interpretation, mult...
Regardless o...
CPT code 19283 was bundled with 19125 and cannot be reported separately based on a previously active NCCI edit. Is the placement of the localization device now included with excision of the breast ...
This was an ...
Patient has needle localization in radiology department and goes to operating room for excision of the lesion. We report CPT code 19125 for excision of the lesion. How do we report the placement of...
The placemen...
Would it be appropriate to report both CPT codes 19301 and 19283 if performed on the same breast?
...Based on the...