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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?
...Yes, it is a...
A patient arrives at the exam area of a hospital-based outpatient cancer center and a licensed nurse observes that the patient is experiencing shortness of breath.
The nurse performs an...
It would be ...
Our facility needs clarification on how to appropriately report external fetal monitoring which is often performed in the hospital outpatient setting (ED/ER).
CPT codes 59050, Fetal...
It would not...
A patient is seen at our facility for concurrent chemotherapy administration. 888 mg of Leucovorin is administered intravenously for 2 hours. 142 mg of Oxaliplatin
is administered via IV piggyba...
Leucovorin i...
We are trying to assign HCPCS codes for supplies used in spinal fusion procedures. There are reamers and pins used which are not reusable and must be replaced with each procedure. What would be the...
While there ...
A 38 year old female with a history of subtotal colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis due to ulcerative colitis presents to our facility for proctoscopy and ileoscopy with biopsy. The patient ...
Currently, t...
A patient presents for an excision of a lesion on the back. The surgeon fails to document the lesion size or the margins in the operative report. The pathology report has the total size of th...
According to...
A patient with a history of a total laryngectomy and tracheoesophageal puncture was seen for a blocked tracheoesophageal fistula and aphonia. Previous attempts in the office to clear the fist...
It would be ...
A patient with cataract of the left eye presents for cataract extraction. It was also noted prior to surgery that the patient had a significant amount of astigmatism due to a pterygium.  ...
The incision...
A patient with pancreatic and biliary stents presents for removal of the stents via esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). The physician uses a videoduodenoscope and removes both the biliary and p...
According to...