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A 27-year-old female presents to labor and delivery with complaints of leakage of fluid and contractions. The provider documents group B Streptococcus (GBS) carrier. The patient has a repeat low tr...
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A newborn was worked-up for group B Streptococcus (GBS) infection and treated with ampicillin and gentamicin. The mother was a GBS carrier with a positive GBS culture during the delivery without si...
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Is an intravenous (IV) piggyback of a therapeutic substance coded as an infusion or an injection?
...When medicat...
What is the difference between an IV injection of an antibiotic and an IV infusion of the same medication?
...Injections a...
This 31 year-old patient who is employed by the United States Post Office is being seen for anthrax exposure. She has no current medical complaints. However, due to the anthrax exposure her physici...
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A patient was seen at our facility due to possible anthrax exposure. A new rapid anthrax test was conducted. The results were negative. What are the appropriate code assignments for this case?
...Code V71.89,...
In the Second Quarter HCPCS Coding Clinic, “Lets talk about Modifiers”, it was stated that modifier -50 should only be appended to surgical procedures.
In the Third Quarter...
The informat...
We are billing for an ambulatory surgical facility. We have revenue codes for many of the services provided at our facility but we have do not know which revenue codes are applicable for the operat...
There are no...
Can we assign code 68200, subconjunctival injection, in addition to cataract extractions (669 series codes)? I believe it is not a routine part of the procedure.
...Although a s...
A patient was seen at our facility for a scheduled bilateral submucous turbinate resection. Would code 30140 be considered inherently bilateral or can a hospital bill the code twice?
...No, code 301...