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Is there a guideline as to how to code unsuccessful procedures in ICD-10-PCS? For example, the patient had an attempted foreign body removal from the right cornea with an eye spud that was unsucces...
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The patient presents with a clotted left femoral popliteal bypass graft of the left leg, and percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy is performed to reestablish flow. How should a thrombectomy of the ...
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The patient is a 74-year-old female with severe peripheral arterial occlusive disease who presented with rest pain in her right lower leg and foot. She is status post femoropopliteal bypass. The pr...
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A patient is seen in an outpatient clinic for cardiac arrhythmia. The patient is sent home with an external electrocardiographic recording device capable of capturing up to 48 hours of ECG data wit...
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How should 24- to 48-hour outpatient ECG monitoring using external (wearable) device be coded?
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Is the harvesting of the rectus fascia through a separate incision separately reported with CPT code 20926, Tissue grafts, other (e.g., paratenon, fat, dermis), when performed for a rectus...
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How should the administration of testosterone cypionate 200 mg be correctly reported? We were told by our payor that we can only report up to 2 units of HCPCS code J1071, Injection, testosterone cy...
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Patient has bilateral ovarian endometriomas. Patient presents for transvaginal aspiration of ovarian endometriomas. Under direct ultrasound visualization, a needle was passed alongside the ultrasou...
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A patient with a left retroperitoneal lymph node presents for biopsy and cryoablation. Non-contrast CT images were performed initially. A guiding needle and a biopsy needle were passed into the nod...
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A patient was seen at our facility for an image guided sphenopalatine ganglion block via a sphenocath device. What is the appropriate CPT code(s) for this procedure?
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