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A patient who is status post colectomy presents with chills, abdominal pain, and fever. On examination, the patient was found to have feculent wound drainage and was diagnosed with anastomotic dehi...
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A patient presents with a celiac artery aneurysm that has significantly increased in size because a previously placed stent graft is no longer excluding the aneurysm. A left external iliac artery t...
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A patient was admitted for lymphovenous bypass of the left axilla. Using an open approach, a suitable left axillary lymphatic channel was identified. A major venous branch draining into the axillar...
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A patient with a history of bilateral mastectomy and implant reconstruction complicated by grade IV capsular contracture and bilateral seromas, was admitted for removal of the implants and bilatera...
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A patient with COVID-19 infection and respiratory failure was treated with the Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter system. A catheter was placed in the right femoral vein for access. Wha...
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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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