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A patient was seen in the emergency room with a fracture to the proximal phalanx of the little finger, left hand. Two attempts were made to reduce the fracture; however, an x-ray showed that ...
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A patient is admitted to undergo a diagnostic colonoscopy for abdominal pain. After administration of IV sedation, the colonoscope was inserted and passed into the rectum and advanced into th...
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A patient is diagnosed with a degenerative labral tear and subacromial bursitis of the right shoulder. The patient presents for labral debridement and bursectomy. During the course of t...
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A patient presented for a left heart catheterization, with selective left and right coronary angiography, and left ventriculography. An angioplasty of the mid and distal LAD was performed in additi...
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A patient with a renal calculus presents for extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL). The patient was taken to the operating room (OR) and an x-ray was performed prior to the induction o...
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A patient was scheduled for a stereotactic breast biopsy of the left breast. Stereotactic images were performed; however, the lesion to be biopsied was not visualized.
Anesthesia wa...
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A patient presented to the radiology department for a lower limb venogram. The injection part of the procedure was attempted several times without success. The procedure was cancelled. ...
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A patient with left pleural effusion presents for diagnostic thoracentesis. The patient’s skin was prepped for the thoracentesis and a local anesthetic was given. The needle was inser...
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A right peroneal tenosynovectomy was performed for treatment of subluxation of the right peroneal tendon. During the operative episode an anomalous muscle of the peroneal tendon was identifie...
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We are a cyberknife center and need clarification regarding how to correctly assign CPT code 77300. We have been informed by our physicist that each stereotactic beam differs from the next be...
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