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This patient is a young man who injured his right hand in an accident today. A two-view x-ray of the hand showed a slightly oblique, transverse, fracture with no significant comminution of the prox...
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This patient was seen in our facility with a diagnosis of carcinoma in situ II of the cervix. She underwent an endocervical curettage (ECC) and a dilation and curettage of the uterus. An excisional...
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This patient was seen for a scheduled audiologic function test at our facility. On examination, impacted cerumen was noted in both ears. Following the removal of the impacted cerumen the audiologic...
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This patient was seen at our facility for a scheduled stereotactic breast biopsy. She was recently diagnosed with a mass in the left breast. What is the correct code assignment for a stereotactic b...
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What are the appropriate codes for telemetry and cardiac monitoring?
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We are in the process of building a single line item charge in a chargemaster to include the supply and the placement procedure for drug eluting stents. What would the appropriate revenue code be f...
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At our facility we were using codes C1762 (Connective tissue human tissue lata) and C1763 (Connective tissue non-human) for sclera tissue purchased from the eye bank. What codes would I use n...
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When a patient has a laboratory panel test (eg. 80053) and then due to an abnormal result has a repeat individual test performed (eg. 84520) which modifier is more appropriate to append to the CPT ...
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This patient was recently found to have a right breast mass in the upper outer quadrant. She was scheduled to undergo a stereotactic core needle biopsy of the mass. There is no previous history of ...
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This 27-year old patient was seen in our facility a week ago with a history of swelling and tenderness in her left breast. On physical examination, two palpable masses were identified. The patient ...
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