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The November 1, 2002 final rule indicated that for direct admits to observation “either G0263 or G0264 would be billed depending on the final diagnosis supporting the direct admission observation...
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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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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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