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At our facility, surgeons are performing traditional surgical discectomies in order to repair a spinal disc herniation. This is typically being performed by making an incision into the disc annulus...
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At our facility some physicians are performing a new protocol for wound care. They are referring to it as autologous tissue graft application with Acell membrane. This protocol requires that blood ...
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Our facility is beginning to use a new cartilage allograft material, Zimmer DeNovo NT Natural Tissue Graft, during chondroplasty. This graft material is made of minced juvenile hyaline cartilage an...
It would not...
Our facility began using a new patch, the Zimmer Collagen Patch, to aid in rotator cuff repair tendon. This collagen repair patch is comprised of processed acellular porcine dermal tissue and is us...
Report HCPCS...
Patient presented a week ago and had placement of right and left subthalamic nucleus leads. He now presents for placement of lead extensions and right and left impulse generators. We reported CPT c...
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A patient was admitted for ACL reconstruction. According to the documentation, general anesthesia with a regional block was administered. Can the regional block administered with the general anesth...
Yes. It woul...
A patient admitted for shoulder arthroscopy with repair and pain pump placement received general endotracheal anesthesia with a right shoulder regional block. Can the shoulder block administered wi...
No. It would...
We are seeking guidance regarding the appropriate reporting of CPT code G0206, Diagnostic mammography, producing direct digital image, unilateral, all views, following an ultrasound guided...
Yes, it woul...
A patient underwent a CT guided aspiration of a retrocrural abscess at the T10-T11 level, at our facility. We are now struggling to determine the appropriate code for this procedure. According to t...
Based on the...
A patient with bilateral lower punctal stenosis underwent a bilateral punctoplasty. According to the documentation, the physician dilated the lower puncta with a dilator, and scissors to excise a v...
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