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A patient presents with aspiration of a foreign body. A bronchoscopy is performed identifying lobar foreign body obstruction, and an attempt is made to remove this obstruction bronchoscopically. Wh...
It would be ...
A patient with a symptomatic left medial femoral condyle traumatic defect was seen at our facility for surgery. A diagnostic arthroscopy was performed prior to the surgical procedure. Would CPT cod...
No, it would...
A patient with a history of a cholecystectomy performed several years ago presented today for an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) due to persistent right upper quadrant pain wi...
Based on the...
A patient with a history of renal insufficiency and hematuria was seen at our facility for a cystoscopy, bilateral retrograde pyelogram, and an insertion of an indwelling ureteral stent. Our issue ...
Report CPT c...
A patient was admitted with a large lytic lesion of the left humeral head, to undergo an arthroscopic assisted biopsy of the lesion. Would it be appropriate to report CPT code 29999 for this proced...
Yes, there i...
A 10 year old patient with recurrent penetrating nasal dermoid with dermal sinus presents for repair. The patient was g...
A patient developed postoperative urine retention following colon surgery and during the workup a large bladder stone was also noted. The cystoscopy showed a bladder stone and an ...
A patient presented to our facility for a laminotomy due to severe pain and associated functional limitation. He is scheduled to undergo a bilateral lumbar fluoroscopically guided...
A patient being treated for uveal melanoma had a radiation device implanted in the right eye. The patient now presents to have this device removed. Our facility is considering CPT...
Patient presents to have open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) of the right extra-articular distal radius fracture wi...