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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...
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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...
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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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A patient at our facility presents due to a solitary bone cyst of the left proximal humerus. Aspiration of the cyst is performed followed by injection of Pro-Dense into the cyst. Is there a HCPCS c...
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Physicians at our facility use Endobutton fixation devices for fixation of soft tissue to bone. Would it be appropriate to report HCPCS code C1713 for the use of Endobutton fixation devices?
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At our facility, we use Surgisis recto-vaginal fistula plugs to repair and/or support damaged or inadequate soft tissue. Would it be appropriate to report HCPCS code C1763 since the plugs meet the ...
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A patient presented to have a biventricular pacemaker inserted. According to the operative report the coronary sinus vein was finally accessed after multiple attempts to cannulate the coronary sinu...
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A patient presents to have a replacement of a generator for a dual chamber pacemaker system. Several attempts to implant a left ventricular lead were unsuccessful due to the abnormal anatomy of the...
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