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When a patient has had a heart transplant for congenital heart disease and comes in for a heart catheterization, would it be appropriate to report the congenital cardiac catheterization codes in th...
If the curre...
A patient with chronic trochanteric hip bursitis presents to have arthroscopic bursectomy of the trochanter and iliotibial band release with partial resection of a spur on the greater trochanter. A...
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The patient suffered facial trauma which resulted with facial paralysis and lagophthalmos. The patient had placement of gold weight in the upper eyelid at that time. Now the patient presents to hav...
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A patient with an expandable prosthesis on two thirds of the femur who is status post resection for osteosarcoma, is now scheduled to undergo an expansion lengthening of the prosthetic device under...
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Our hospital recently performed a percutaneous tricuspid balloon valvuloplasty in our cardiac catheterization department. There does not appear to be an appropriate CPT code available for this proc...
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A patient was seen at our facility for the removal of an old dorsal column stimulator and replacement of a new stimulation system. According to the operative report, both the generator and the elec...
When the fir...
A patient presents for lower balloon-assisted enteroscopy with fluoroscopy. The enteroscopy was introduced through the anus and advanced to the mid ileum. Approximately 75 to 100 cm of the ileum wa...
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A 67 year old patient presents for upper balloon-assisted enteroscopy due to GI bleeding. After the administration of monitored anesthesia care, an endoscope was passed under fluoroscopic guidance....
Based on the...
In the fourth quarter 2010 issue of AHA’s Coding Clinic for HCPCS, question #1, page 4, a patient underwent a staged implantation of an intracranial neurostimulator system. During the fi...
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The patient suffered a knee injury resulting in an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), lateral collatera...