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Physicians will occasionally perform image guided needle placement to aid excision of tissue in areas other than the breast. Please advise the appropriate needle placement code that would be assign...
Based on the...
Can a hospital report CPT code 93350 + 93307 or 93351 for a stress echocardiogram? The stress and echo are performed in the same setting but by different departments.
...For OPPS fac...
Are liquid adhesives considered a surgical fixation technique of a Xenograft? Would the use of Mastisol justify using CPT codes 15271-15278, Application of skin substitute graft …?
...It would be ...
What does “provided by the same physician” mean in the code narrative?
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What CPT code should be used when intravenous (IV) drugs are added to an existing IV infusion and run over a period of 15 or 20 minutes? Would this be considered part of the infusion code 90780 or ...
The 15 or 20...
According to the limitations for coverage, “Patients with stress incontinence, urinary obstruction, and specific neurologic diseases (e.g. diabetes with peripheral nerve involvement) which are as...
Yes, that is...
Can you provide assistance with the proper coding of defibrillation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)? We have been instructed that defibrillation is not included in the code for CPR...
Defibrillati...
The HCPCS 2002 edition has the codes for chemotherapy marked for deletion. Yet, HCPCS codes Q0083, Q0084 are all listed in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 2002 APC payment file...
HCPCS codes ...
This 39-year-old female was referred for a bilateral capsular contraction of her breast implants. The capsules were very hard and there was some tenderness to palpation. Because the capsules are no...
Report code ...
When a patient is scheduled to undergo a left cardiac catheterization with a coronary angiogram, and the physician later decides to conduct the coronary angiogram only, can we show this by reportin...
It would be ...