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A patient presented for hysteroscopic removal of their intrauterine device (IUD). On examination in the office, the IUD strings could not be visualized in the vagina or passing through the cervix; ...
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A patient presents to surgery one week post complete mastectomy, for re-excision of positive muscle margins. The patient was thought to have residual tumor invading the skeletal muscle involving th...
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A patient with a history of breast reconstruction now has a chronic wound of the left breast with impending implant exposure. Per the provider, the patient presented to surgery for left breast impl...
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After a patient had an initial pelvic examination under anesthesia, attention was turned to laparoscopic access and a supraumbilical incision was made. Trocars were introduced and examination revea...
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The patient, whom had a previous L4-S1 fusion and an auto-fusion of T12-L1, has now developed spinal stenosis of L1-L4 and presented for decompression. After a posterior midline incision was made t...
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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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