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An end stage renal disease (ESRD) patient was on his way to a dialysis center for a regularly scheduled dialysis. The patient experienced substernal chest pain and stopped at the Community Hospital...
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Is it appropriate for a hospital outpatient facility to report code 30300 for the removal of an object or foreign body from the nose performed in the emergency room? This procedure was performed wi...
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This patient was seen at our facility with bleeding from a chronic venous stasis leg ulcer. The ulcer has been bleeding intermittently for the past four months and the patient states that he has be...
Silver nitra...
The November 1, 2002 final rule indicated that for direct admits to observation “either G0263 or G0264 would be billed depending on the final diagnosis supporting the direct admission observation...
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This patient is a young man who injured his right hand in an accident today. A two-view x-ray of the hand showed a slightly oblique, transverse, fracture with no significant comminution of the prox...
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This patient was seen in our facility with a diagnosis of carcinoma in situ II of the cervix. She underwent an endocervical curettage (ECC) and a dilation and curettage of the uterus. An excisional...
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This patient was seen for a scheduled audiologic function test at our facility. On examination, impacted cerumen was noted in both ears. Following the removal of the impacted cerumen the audiologic...
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This patient was seen at our facility for a scheduled stereotactic breast biopsy. She was recently diagnosed with a mass in the left breast. What is the correct code assignment for a stereotactic b...
Report the s...
What are the appropriate codes for telemetry and cardiac monitoring?
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We are in the process of building a single line item charge in a chargemaster to include the supply and the placement procedure for drug eluting stents. What would the appropriate revenue code be f...
HCPCS codes ...