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Our facility is performing aquapheresis on an outpatient basis for patients that have fluid overload. We were instructed that CPT code 36516 should be reported for this procedure. However, we are n...
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According to the operative report the patient had a left L3-L4 diskectomy and a left L4 foraminotomy performed. In the discharge summary the physician documents that a decompression of the L3-L4 wa...
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A 70 year old patient with progressive neuropathy presents for a muscle nerve biopsy of the sural nerve and gastrocnemius muscle. The patient is sedated and given local anesthesia. A 3 inch incisio...
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What is the correct CPT code for reporting the H1N1 (swine flue) vaccine and administration?
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A 44-year old female patient presents to the emergency room suffering from dental pain due to a cracked tooth. The patient states she has had gradual worsening of her pain for the last several days...
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Dilute Russell’s Viper Venom time (DVV) is a test we perform to test for lupus anticoagulation. Two distinct reagents exist for this test, a DVV test reagent (low phospholipid) and DVV confirm re...
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Initially, this patient was seen in our facility with a history of an amputated portion of the skin and soft tissue of the tip of his left second digit. On physical examination exposed bone and sof...
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A 67 year old patient status post previous fracture repair and free flap presents now with an infected nonunion fracture of right tibia. Debridement of the bone is scheduled to be performed and a p...
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Our facility is performing “rapid desensitization” to some of our chemotherapy patients who have developed allergies or hypersensitivity reactions (HSRs) to the chemotherapy drugs. This treatme...
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A patient presented to our facility with complaints of painful left great toe as well as left second and third digits. He has a previous history of fusion of the great toe. However, he has recurren...
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