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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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When reporting drugs with a revenue code 0636 on a UB-92, the instructions are as follows: “Revenue code 0636 relates to HCPCS code, so HCPCS is the recommended code to be used in FL 44. The spec...
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Based on the 2005 OPPS Final Rule we have instructed our staff to code simple repair using dermabond to CPT codes 12001-12021 for the procedure, and code G0168 for the tissue adhesive, for dates of...
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The doctor prescribed morphine to be given to the patient for pain relief. The nurse injects a small amount of morphine into the IV. This process will be repeated until the morphine level is suffic...
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This patient was sent to radiology with a request to check the patency of a cath. The report reads “Contrast was injected through the patient’s left sided port-a-cath. The tip is within the SVC...
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Susceptibility studies were performed on two different organisms. We reported CPT codes 87184 and 87186. However, we get an NCCI edit “mutually exclusive procedures that would be allowed if the a...
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This patient was seen for 90 minutes of therapeutic hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The patient required 10 minutes of descent time. Ten (10) minutes of air breaks were provided and 10 minutes of ascent...
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