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Our facility is struggling with the correct way to report the Da Vinci assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy. Our coders want to assign CPT 58553 for the laparoscopic vaginal hysterectomy since the ut...
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At our hospital, physicians are implanting the BaHa® osseointe-grated implant and the abutment in the outpatient surgical environment. Several weeks later, the patient will present to his/her phys...
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A patient seen at our facility for treatment of a left lower extremity wound with Integra and VAC placement. The wound measured 6 cm x 2.5 cm. The patient was taken to the operating room and under ...
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There was an issue in Coding Clinic for HCPCS, 2nd Quarter, 2008 (page 5), which referred to excision of lesion but the surgeon failed to document lesion size. The response was to query th...
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In question 3 of the Third Quarter 2009 issue of Coding Clinic for HCPCS, it was advised that CPT code 77002, Fluoroscopic guidance for needle placement (g, biopsy, aspiration, injection, ...
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