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A patient fell through his roof and injured his left shoulder and was diagnosed with a rotator cuff tear. He is now scheduled for an arthroscopy with open cuff repair. According to the ...
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The physician performed a right-sided arthroscopic decompression of the subacromial space with a rotator cuff repair and the labrum was also debrided. What are the appropriate CPT codes for t...
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A patient was seen at our facility with a diagnosis of stiff left total knee replacement. About 6 weeks ago she underwent a manipulation under anesthesia but has not regained any motion since...
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A patient with a symptomatic left medial femoral condyle traumatic defect was seen at our facility for surgery. A diagnostic arthroscopy was performed prior to the surgical procedure. W...
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A patient status post bilateral mastectomies develops necrotic skin edges of the mastectomy flap sites on both breasts. She presents for excision of the necrotic skin edges. After the a...
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At our facility, surgeons are performing traditional surgical discectomies in order to repair a spinal disc herniation. This is typically being performed by making an incision into the disc annulus...
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At our facility some physicians are performing a new protocol for wound care. They are referring to it as autologous tissue graft application with Acell membrane. This protocol requires that blood ...
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Our facility is beginning to use a new cartilage allograft material, Zimmer DeNovo NT Natural Tissue Graft, during chondroplasty. This graft material is made of minced juvenile hyaline cartilage an...
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Our facility began using a new patch, the Zimmer Collagen Patch, to aid in rotator cuff repair tendon. This collagen repair patch is comprised of processed acellular porcine dermal tissue and is us...
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Patient presented a week ago and had placement of right and left subthalamic nucleus leads. He now presents for placement of lead extensions and right and left impulse generators. We reported CPT c...
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