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A patient has an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) with a gastric polypectomy performed. The polypectomy is performed with cold biopsy forceps. What is the correct CPT code assignment(s)?
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Can the contrast HCPCS Q-codes Q9958-Q9964 for high osmolar contrast material, be reported for contrasts administered via the gastrointestinal (GI) tract or cystoscopy, eg., Gastrografin or Hypaque...
High osmolar...
Our facility has found some difficulty in reporting HCPCS code G0235, which is non-covered by Medicare. We believe that some of the confusion comes from the difference in HCPCS code G0235’s...
HCPCS code G...
The coding instructions provided in the CPT 2007 code book for intermediate repair of wounds state “wounds that require closure of subcutaneous tissue of more than one layer of tissue beneath the...
The directiv...
Is it appropriate to report HCPCS code G0379 when a patient is admitted for observation, which is medically necessary, after undergoing a procedure in the hospital’s outpatient surgery department...
The placemen...
A patient was seen in the emergency department and then sent to the cath lab. We have reported HCPCS code G0290, Transcatheter placement of a drug eluting intracoronary stent(s), percutan...
Report HCPCS...
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...
It would be ...
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...
According to...
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...