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We have a patient that came in for a vaginal hysterectomy (58291) and a salpingo-oophorectomy (58720).
I coded both procedures separately but I received an error message of “58720 is a comp...
Based on CPT...
What are C-codes? I was told that I should be reporting C-codes on hospital outpatient claims.
...C-codes are ...
A patient is seen in the emergency department for abdominal pain and vomiting. A 2 mg morphine IV push and 12.5 mg phenergan IV push are given for the pain and vomiting. Another 12.5 mg phenergan I...
Report HCPCS...
Patients in our emergency department are often injected with phenergan via IV push, followed by a separate IV push of demerol. The two separate IV pushes last about 10 minutes each. Sometimes later...
Report two u...
How should an OPPS hospital report a non-chemotherapeutic intravenous infusion that last 90 minutes to Medicare for visits?
...HCPCS code C...
What is the appropriate code for a hospital outpatient setting to report the implantation of both a lead and a pulse generator for a single chamber cardioverter-defibrillator?
I submitted CPT...
If the lead ...
A retinal procedure that involved implanting a liquid called SILIKON 1000 silicone oil was performed in our hospital. I know that there are Level II HCPCS codes that describe certain implantable me...
SILIKON 1000...
A patient is seen in the emergency department for chest pain and a 14 cm facial laceration. The patient’s facial laceration is treated with a layered closure (12055) and the patient is given an I...
Yes. Modifie...
How should intra-arterial and chemotherapeutic and non-chemotherapeutic intravenous pushes that last only 15 minutes be coded?
...Currently th...
In CY 2005, hospitals were instructed to bill CPT codes 90781, 96412, and 96423 in 8 unit increments for additional hours of infusion on a separate line on the bill. Should we continue to do this i...
In CY ...