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This 49-year-old patient was seen in the emergency room with a diagnosis of acute exacerbation of COPD. The physician ordered an EKG. Would this diagnosis support the need for an EKG?
...Yes, code 49...
A patient is scheduled for a preoperative EKG, according to documentation in the health record; he will undergo surgery in two days for a hiatal hernia. Should I list the hiatal hernia as an additi...
A diagnosis ...
Is it appropriate to report code G0168 along with a laceration repair code?
...Yes, code G0...
Our facility performs quite a few ERCPS. Many times the physician will drag a balloon catheter through the bile ducts to remove any stones present. When stones are present it is not difficult to co...
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We would appreciate your assistance in the proper coding of two procedures we frequently see at our facility. These procedures are bone imaging with SPECT imaging and tumor localization with ...
SPECT is a 3...
Our facility has just begun performing magnetic resonance imagings (MRIs) and magnetic resonance angiographies (MRAs). Sometimes a contrast agent called Gadolinium-DTPA or Magnevist is used. ...
Contrast mat...
This patient was admitted to ambulatory surgery for the excision of a lipoma on the back.
During the excision, the surgeon found multiple small pseudopods extensively into the surrounding sub...
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This 3-year-old patient was seen in our facility with a diagnosis of abnormal echocardiogram to have a diagnostic right and left heart cath done.
Although, the physician’s final impre...
The physicia...
At our hospital, patients that have a PTCA/Stent procedure in the cath lab also have a “stand by pump” waiting in the operating room in case they have to go to the operating room for a more def...
It would be ...
In a previous issue of AHA Coding Clinic for HCPCS, in the article “Let’s talk about modifiers”, it was stated that modifier -50 should only be appended to surgical procedures. ...
Yes, modifie...