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Physicians will occasionally perform image guided needle placement to aid excision of tissue in areas other than the breast. Please advise the appropriate needle placement code that would be assign...

Based on the...

Can a hospital report CPT code 93350 + 93307 or 93351 for a stress echocardiogram? The stress and echo are performed in the same setting but by different departments.

For OPPS fac...

Are liquid adhesives considered a surgical fixation technique of a Xenograft? Would the use of Mastisol justify using CPT codes 15271-15278, Application of skin substitute graft …?

It would be ...

What does “provided by the same physician” mean in the code narrative?

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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...

There is no ...

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...

It would not...

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...

Based on the...

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...