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A patient with multiple warts on the right foot was taken to the operating room for carbon dioxide (CO2) laser excision of the warts and autoimmunization of a single lesion of the abductor muscle b...
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A patient with urinary incontinence presents to our facility for InterStim Therapy placement. This procedure was performed during two separate encounters. In the first encounter, a temp...
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A 59-year-old patient with significant cataract and astigmatism in the left eye presented to our facility for cataract extraction. During the operative session, phacoemulsification with poste...
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An 80-year-old female patient presented to our facility with a defect in her earlobes due to the wearing of heavy earrings over an extended period of time. The surgeon repaired the bilateral ...
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The current practice at our facility is to report a CPT code for splint application whenever any type of splint is applied on a patient. We have been using splint application codes for air ca...
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There were two lesions excised from a single incision of the same breast. However, one excision was by preoperative wire and the other was an excision of a nodule. Would it be correct t...
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How do I report HCPCS code G0378 for observation when the patient is admitted to observation on one date and discharged on another date? For example, a patient is admitted to observation at 2...
When the pat...
Based on clinical documentation in the health record an established patient with a nonhealing wound of the left lower extremity returns from the Wound Care Center with an established plan of care f...
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May a hospital bill for the facility-based evaluation and management services associated with a patient visit in the emergency department if a nurse or mid-level provider, but not a physician, prov...
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Is a hospital facility allowed to bill for facility-based E/M services associated with a patient visit to the facility’s emergency department?
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