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A patient was admitted for ACL reconstruction. According to the documentation, general anesthesia with a regional block was administered. Can the regional block administered with the general anesth...
Yes. It woul...
A patient admitted for shoulder arthroscopy with repair and pain pump placement received general endotracheal anesthesia with a right shoulder regional block. Can the shoulder block administered wi...
No. It would...
We are seeking guidance regarding the appropriate reporting of CPT code G0206, Diagnostic mammography, producing direct digital image, unilateral, all views, following an ultrasound guided...
Yes, it woul...
A patient underwent a CT guided aspiration of a retrocrural abscess at the T10-T11 level, at our facility. We are now struggling to determine the appropriate code for this procedure. According to t...
Based on the...
A patient with bilateral lower punctal stenosis underwent a bilateral punctoplasty. According to the documentation, the physician dilated the lower puncta with a dilator, and scissors to excise a v...
Based on the...
A post breast reconstruction/ revision was performed using harvested fat. The patient has a history of breast cancer. According to the operative report fat was suctioned out and not harvested throu...
Based on the...
Arstasis is an access technique that lends itself to hemostasis facilitated by physiology and the laws of physics. It creates a tissue track that slants across the arterial wall in a diagonal, thus...
It would not...
A patient presents for repair of an umbilical hernia. The umbilical hernia sac was removed and the omentum was placed into the abdomen. Finger palpation revealed a small ventral hernia with a fasci...
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A patient is seen at our facility for a complete detached quadriceps tendon and bilateral detached retinaculum repair. The quadriceps tendon was repaired in a Bunnell type fashion with wire and sep...
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There are two products (i.e., AlloMax and XenMatrix) that can be used in the surgical repair of damaged or ruptured, replacement, reconstruction, or augmentation of soft tissue in, among other proc...
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