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A patient presents to have a transforaminal epidural injection for treatment of lower back and leg pain. The right L3-4, L4-5, L5-S1 neural foramen were marked for needle placement. Under fluorosco...
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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...
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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.
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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 …?
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What does “provided by the same physician” mean in the code narrative?
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A patient is seen in an outpatient clinic for cardiac arrhythmia. The patient is sent home with an external electrocardiographic recording device capable of capturing up to 48 hours of ECG data wit...
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How should 24- to 48-hour outpatient ECG monitoring using external (wearable) device be coded?
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Is the harvesting of the rectus fascia through a separate incision separately reported with CPT code 20926, Tissue grafts, other (e.g., paratenon, fat, dermis), when performed for a rectus...
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How should the administration of testosterone cypionate 200 mg be correctly reported? We were told by our payor that we can only report up to 2 units of HCPCS code J1071, Injection, testosterone cy...
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Patient has bilateral ovarian endometriomas. Patient presents for transvaginal aspiration of ovarian endometriomas. Under direct ultrasound visualization, a needle was passed alongside the ultrasou...
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