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A patient underwent a repeat low transverse cesarean section. During the cesarean delivery, vacuum extraction was used to assist with the delivery of the infant. What is the correct ICD-10-PCS qual...
Vacuum assis...
The patient was taken to the operating room post vaginal delivery for control of bleeding using a Bakri balloon. We are unsure if the Bakri balloon is coded to the Obstetrics section or the Medical...
The root ope...
How is an open posterior colporrhaphy/rectocele repair coded in PCS? Should one or two codes be assigned for this procedure?
...In the conte...
What is the appropriate ICD-10-PCS code, when a combination of drugs is administered during a single injection (e.g., corticosteroid and local anesthetic)?
...If two subst...
We are requesting that the Coding Clinic Editorial Advisory Board revisit advice published about non-Candida albicans sepsis. The Alphabetic Index under the term “Sepsis, candida,” directs to c...
Coding C...
Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2013, advised the assignment of codes that describe the destruction of the right and left pulmonary veins (025T3ZZ and 025S3ZZ), for catheter ablation around ...
Upon further...
How should dehydration with hypernatremia and dehydration with hyponatremia be coded?
Codes E87.0 and E87.1 seem to capture hypernatremia and hyponatremia respectively but not dehydration. Th...
Assign code ...
What is the appropriate body part character when a diagnostic lumbar tap is performed to test for meningitis? When you go to the drainage table (Table 009), there are a couple of options that seem ...
The body par...
How should an aspiration via a lumbar drain port be reported? What body part character should we use for the lumbar drain port?
...The body par...
The patient had an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), and underwent endovascular repair. A stent graft was introduced via a transfemoral catheter approach and deployed at the target vessel. How shoul...
Endovascular...