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A patient with a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was seen at our facility and deemed a candidate for fast track transtracheal oxygen catheter placement. Our coders assigne...
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A patient who underwent an ankle fusion previously was seen at our facility with areas of localized tenderness of the medial ankle. Work-up revealed a prominent screw head as the cause of the local...
Presently, t...
Can a transfusion code be reported for blood products or derivatives, such as Albumin?
...No. It would...
A 44-year old female patient presents to the emergency room suffering from dental pain due to a cracked tooth. The patient states she has had gradual worsening of her pain for the last several days...
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Dilute Russell’s Viper Venom time (DVV) is a test we perform to test for lupus anticoagulation. Two distinct reagents exist for this test, a DVV test reagent (low phospholipid) and DVV confirm re...
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Initially, this patient was seen in our facility with a history of an amputated portion of the skin and soft tissue of the tip of his left second digit. On physical examination exposed bone and sof...
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A 67 year old patient status post previous fracture repair and free flap presents now with an infected nonunion fracture of right tibia. Debridement of the bone is scheduled to be performed and a p...
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Our facility is performing “rapid desensitization” to some of our chemotherapy patients who have developed allergies or hypersensitivity reactions (HSRs) to the chemotherapy drugs. This treatme...
CPT code 951...
A patient presented to our facility with complaints of painful left great toe as well as left second and third digits. He has a previous history of fusion of the great toe. However, he has recurren...
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Our facility wants clarification regarding reporting 3D rendering services with CT imaging. In the current CPT codebook there are parenthetical notes following codes 70450 (CT head or brain) and 70...
CPT code 763...