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The nurses at our facility apply sustained multi-layered high graduated compression dressing, such as Profore or Dynaflex, in our hospital outpatient setting. We understand that physicians ma...
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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...
InterStim Th...
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...
The limbal r...
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...
A patient with known ischemic cardiomyopathy was seen at our facility. He is status post coronary artery bypass (CABG) and a bi-ventricular implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. He was recently n...
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A patient presents to our facility with degenerative joint disease (DJD) of the sacroiliac joint. The patient is prepped for surgery and two screws were placed
percutaneously into the sacroil...
Currently, t...