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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 with a history of severe endometriosis underwent a diagnostic laparoscopy at our facility. Following confirmation of bilateral tubal disease, chromotubation and a hysteroscopy with rem...
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When a benign lesion is excised from the arm, 0.4 cm (11400) and another benign lesion is excised from the hand at 0.4 cm (11420, a correct coding initiative (CCI) edit is not elicited, although it...
Modifier 59 ...
We are concerned with the overuse of modifier 59. Some of our coders feel that modifier 59 should not be reported unless you get a CCI edit and others contend that whenever modifier 59 is warranted...
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This patient had a laparoscopic adjustable gastric band performed a few months ago. She is now being seen at the facility for a lap band fill by injection under fluoroscopic imaging guidance.
An adjustabl...
The patient has a debridement (11043) performed on a wound in the hospital outpatient department. Seven days later, the patient returns to the hospital outpatient department and the physician asses...
When billing...
What is the appropriate code assignment for a perm-a-catheter placed for dialysis? The catheter was placed into the atrium. Our physician calls this an Ashsplit catheter. We were informed that the ...
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