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A patient, with long-standing gastroesophageal reflux and marked regurgitation, was seen at our facility with request to be taken off the proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) due to complications from the...
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Patient with retained cataract fragments and Elschnig pearls presents for fragment removal, iridectomy and capsulotomy of the left eye.
A paracentesis was performed and the anterior ch...
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A patient with a diagnosis of painful orthopedic hardware and posterior tibial tendon adhesions was seen at our facility to undergo an ankle arthroscopy with debridement, removal of hardware and a ...
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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...
The injectio...
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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This patient is scheduled to receive an infusion of drugs at our facility today that are not neoplastic drugs (including hydrating solutions) for 2 hours. Since we are no longer utilizing HCPCS Q c...
The hospital...