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In the pain clinic, a catheter is placed into the lumbar epidural space and an anesthetic is administered. Leaving the catheter in place, the patient is periodically brought back to the clinic for ...
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In the Third Quarter Coding Clinic for HCPCS it was stated that an expert panel convened by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American Health Information Management Associati...
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This patient was seen at our facility for a right ureteroscopy with stone extraction and a right ureteral stent placement.
A question arose among the coders at our facility regarding the appr...
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This 52-year-old patient is seen in our outpatient clinic for a colon cancer screening for a yearly fecal occult blood. We are reporting code V76.51 for the diagnosis and HCPCS code G0107 for the p...
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At our facility, we report CPT code 93923 for non-invasive physiologic studies, which are frequently performed at two separate sessions, once for the upper extremities and once for the lower extrem...
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This patient with a history of seizure disorder was seen due to a failed vagal nerve stimulator battery. A new vagal nerve stimulator battery was put in place. During the procedure intraoperatively...
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This 74-year-old patient presented to the office with early rest pain, right leg. An angiogram showed that the superficial femoral artery was significantly narrowed with almost complete occlusion....
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This patient was admitted to day surgery for a biopsy of a neck mass. Following the biopsy, the patient continued to complain of neck pain and was admitted to observation for continued monitoring. ...
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A patient was seen in the emergency department for complaints of chest pain. Nitroglycerin was given sublingually, however, the chest pain did not resolve. The patient’s cardiac enzymes were slig...
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According to standing orders at a regional hospital, all persons that undergo anesthesia must have an EKG/ECG preoperatively. The apparent code for such tests is 93000. The difficulty is that not a...
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