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A patient with chronic aneurysm involving the ascending aorta, aortic arch, and descending aorta is admitted for ascending aortic and aortic arch replacement with tube grafts. The proximal ascendin...

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A patient, status post heart transplantation, presents for a right heart catheterization and right ventricle endomyocardial biopsy with fluoroscopic guidance to evaluate cardiac allograft rejection...

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A patient, who is status post right mastectomy, is admitted for deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap breast reconstruction with nerve conduit neurotization. During surgery, the recipient...

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A patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was admitted for placement of endobronchial valves into the left lower lobe bronchus. The scope was advanced and bronchial valves were placed in...

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ICD-10-PCS Guideline B3.10c on Fusion Procedures of the Spine advises how to code combinations of devices and materials that are used for fusion of a vertebral joint. However, there is confusion re...

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The patient was diagnosed with acute ischemia of the ascending colon due to mesenteric vein thrombosis, which was attributed to Antithrombin III deficiency. The Index to Diseases references code I8...

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A patient was diagnosed with pyuria and started on antibiotics; however when the urine cultures returned negative, antibiotics were discontinued. The physician’s final diagnostic statement listed...

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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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