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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...

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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.

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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 …?

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What does “provided by the same physician” mean in the code narrative?

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We are concerned about the NCCI edit for codes 77401-77416 for radiation treatment sessions. At our facility radiation treatment may be delivered to more than one area during a single session. How ...

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A 14-year-old patient was brought to the emergency department with severe pain and swelling of his left ankle. He sustained an injury when he fell off his skateboard on the school playground. A 2-v...

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This 10-year-old boy was struck by an automobile while riding his bicycle in the street. He suffered an open fracture of the shaft of the left tibia and fibula. The patient was scheduled for ambula...

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We are concerned about the NCCI edit for codes 77401-77416 for radiation treatment sessions. At our facility radiation treatment may be delivered to more than one area during a single session. How ...

It is approp...

Radiation therapy treatments are provided at our outpatient hospital facility. A question has recently surfaced among our staff regarding the reporting of treatment management services (77427-77431...

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At our facility some of the patients receive multiple sessions of radiation therapy services on the same day. Would it appropriate to utilize modifier -59 if a certain amount of time passes between...

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