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A patient, who is status post pancreaticoduodenectomy, presents with stenosis of the pancreaticojunostomy. A robotic lateral pancreaticogastrostomy is performed with the objective of decompressing ...
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A patient with an acquired loss of his penis and scrotum due to a war injury, presented for penile and scrotal transplantation. Previous penile and abdominal skin grafts were removed. The allogenei...
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A patient was admitted with vaginal bleeding and lower abdominal pain. Twin gestation in the left fallopian tube was revealed during diagnostic laparoscopy, along with a bleeding rent in the distal...
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A patient experienced infiltration of the IV in her left wrist that caused significant swelling of her forearm and hand. At bedside, an intercompartmental pressure reading was performed to rule out...
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A patient was seen for possible compartment syndrome following an injury to the left tibia. Interstitial fluid pressures were taken of the four compartments of the leg using a wick catheter.
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The patient presents for robotic cholecystectomy with Firefly™ indocyanine green (ICG) cholangiogram. Firefly™ ICG imaging uses infrared technology. How would the intraoperative cholangiogram u...
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Would there ever an instance where “once in a lifetime” code(s) may be reported more than once?
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The term “once in a lifetime” may seem pretty self explanatory to many. However, for some, examples will make it crystal clear. Can you provide some code examples of these procedures?
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Our facility dermatologist provided us with an article regarding destruction of telangiectasia. The article stated it would be inappropriate to report code range 17106-17108 for this service. We ha...
It would be ...