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When coding a physician’s services provided during inpatient hospitalization, which set of coding guidelines is applicable, the inpatient or outpatient guidelines? I’m particularly interested b...
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Is it appropriate to report codes for diagnoses recorded as “evidence of cerebral atrophy” and “appears to be a nasal fracture,” when documented on outpatient radiology reports?
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External causes of morbidity coding may require up to four codes to identify the cause of injury, the intent of the injury (accident versus intentional), the place of injury, and the person’s sta...
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ICD-10-CM provides codes to identify the Glasgow coma scale (GCS) score. When the patient presents with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), these codes are used in conjunction with the specific codes d...
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A patient with left lung cancer presents for bronchoscopic placement of fiducial marker to target the left lung tumor. The fiducial marker was placed; the patient was discharged and scheduled for C...
The radiolog...
A patient presented to the hospital with a large right perihilar mass. She was not a surgical candidate, and had fiducial marker placement and endoscopic transbronchial needle aspiration biopsy of ...
The radiolog...
The patient presented to the hospital for repair of right femoral artery pseudoaneurysm. At surgery, dissection was undertaken down to the inguinal ligament and the common femoral artery was identi...
The cut down...
The patient is a 65-year-old male with a history of chronic peripheral artery disease (PAD), who had previously undergone right femoral-popliteal bypass grafting using saphenous vein. One year afte...
The pseudoan...
How should a nonhealing surgical wound be coded?
...ICD-10-CM do...
Does the advice from Coding Clinic, First Quarter 2010, page 5, regarding the coding of neurologic deficits caused by CVA even when they have resolved at the time of discharge from hospita...
Hemiplegia i...