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This patient was seen at our facility for a psoas compartment block. The lumbar spine was imaged fluoroscopically and the psoas compartment was innervated by the lumbar plexus, which intertwines wi...
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A patient was admitted to our emergency department in asystole. While performing CPR, the patient was defibrillated. CPT code 92960 reads as elective/nonemergency. We do not believe that CPT code 9...
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When critical care is given in the emergency department, is code 99291 reported in addition to the visit level code, or is it reported alone? In the OPPS Addendum B, code 99281-99285 have a payment...
Critical car...
Does a secondary diagnosis of chest pain, congestive heart failure or asthma meet the criteria for assigning G0244?
The final rule for 2003 OPPS appears to allow these diagnoses in the admitt...
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A Medicare patient was seen at our facility, by her request, for a preventive physical examination. The patient recently relocated from out of state where she received a preventive physical examina...
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A Medicare patient was seen for an initial preventive physical examination and an electrocardiogram. In the past, Medicare normally would not cover the preventive physical examination.
Howeve...
It would be ...
When a patient is seen for initial preventive medicine examination and is also seen by an internal medicine physician for a breast mass noted during the preventive care exam, how would this be repo...
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A patient with symptomatic high-grade stenosis in the right internal and common carotid artery was seen today at our facility for carotid stenting. A percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stent...
A stent plac...
A 53-year-old man diagnosed with rotator cuff tear is scheduled to undergo a mini-open repair. Our surgeons perform a lot of rotator cuff repairs via this technique. We are questioning the appropri...
A mini-open ...
What is the correct way to report 30mg of Depo Medrol? There are three choices, do you report HCPCS codes J1020 x2 or J1030-52 or J1020? If you report HCPCS code J1020 that is listed by 20mg, how w...
The general ...