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The patients are two-year-old thoraco-omphalopagus conjoined twins. The twins are attached at the anterior thorax and the abdomen and have a fused liver. They underwent complex surgery to
separa...
"Conjoined t...
What is the ICD-10-PCS root operation for bone marrow biopsy?
...Biopsy of bo...
A patient with moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma status post right upper lobectomy presents due to enlarging mediastinal nodes and planned bronchoscopy with fine needle aspiration of the lym...
For the tran...
A patient with hematemesis presents for esophagogastro-duodenoscopy. The patient is found to have esophageal varices, and therefore, ligation of esophageal varices was performed using bands placed ...
Esophageal v...
A patient was seen for a balloon sinuplasty. The sinus endoscope was introduced into the left nasal cavity and a balloon was utilized to dilate the left frontal sinus outflow tract in three locatio...
Since there ...
Coding Clinic, First Quarter 2004, pages 14-15, indicated that "ICD-9-CM assumes a relationship between diabetes and osteomyelitis when both conditions are present, unless the physician ha...
No, ICD-10-C...
What is the appropriate code assignment for diabetic gastroparesis?
...Assign first...
A patient presents for pharmacomechanical thrombolysis of left, femoral, popliteal and iliac
deep venous thrombosis (DVT). This procedure is currently coded to 39.79 in ICD-9-CM. After referenci...
Coders shoul...
What is the appropriate code assignment for a spinal decompression?
...Spinal decom...
A 59-year-old patient with advanced ovarian cancer presents for insertion of venous access port. An incision was made in the anterior chest wall and a subcutaneous pocket was created. The catheter ...
Code only th...