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Our facility dermatologist provided us with an article regarding destruction of telangiectasia. The article stated it would be inappropriate to report code range 17106-17108 for this service. We ha...
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Brachial Artery Reactivity Testing (BART) is a test for early detection of atherosclerosis that was developed in the 1990s. These vascular studies are noninvasive and performed via duplex/ultrasoni...
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Since January 1, 2009, CPT codes 90853, Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) and 90857, Interactive group psychotherapy, were replaced with timed HCPCS code...
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A patient with a history of hypertension, hypokalemia, markedly elevated aldosterone/rennin ratio, received a saline suppression test which confirmed primary hyperaldosteronism. This patient is now...
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Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter 2008, page 5, Question 2, advised to assign modifier 59 to CPT codes 29827 and 29826. Based on the question, the physician performed a right-sided arthroscopic decompr...
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A patient is taken to a minor procedure room for a planned hemorrhoid banding, and after examination of hemorrhoids and “pinch test” by the physician, the procedure was not performed at the phy...
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Can hospitals use modifiers 73 and 74 to indicate a terminated procedure when another procedure has been completed during the same operative session? Can
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A patient was seen at our facility for a planned femoral angioplasty and angiography. The angiography was completed but the angioplasty was not started because the physician could not cross t...
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In Coding Clinic for HCPCS, Third Quarter 2006, page 7, question 16 stated that the patient arrived in the emergency department (ED) with an intravenous (IV) hydration infusion that was st...
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In Coding Clinic for HCPCS, Third Quarter 2006, page 12, question 24 stated how would we report three different substances that are bagged and administered via three separate IV pushes? &n...
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