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Coding Clinic, Third Quarter 2008, page 12, states "decompensated indicates that there has been a flareup (acute phase) of a chronic condition." Should this general definition of decompens...
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We are requesting clarification on the use of codes from category Z3A, Weeks of gestation. The note at Z3A indicates that these codes are for use only on the maternal record, to indicate the weeks ...
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During a C-section delivery, the physician placed the intrauterine device (IUD) in the uterus prior to closure. How should the placement of the IUD via an open incision be coded? The ICD-10-PCS "0U...
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A 72-year-old female patient had a two week history of painful lesions on her thighs and pannus. Over the next two days, this evolved to bruising. The bruises spread onto the buttocks and pannus, f...
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An 18-year-old patient with a recurrent aneurysmal cyst of the right pubic ramus underwent curettage, burring and synthetic grafting of aneurysmal bone cyst, right pubic ramus, using Mastergraft gr...
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In ICD-10-PCS, how is intrauterine pressure monitoring during labor coded?
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The patient had a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt placed percutaneously with laparoscopic
assistance. The physician performed a craniotomy with tunneling of the subcutaneous catheter. The surgeo...
If a separat...
A 62-year-old male patient underwent urgent coronary artery bypass grafting. During the surgery,
division of a band of muscle restricting the distal left anterior descending coronary artery was ...
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The patient had a normal vaginal delivery and experienced postpartum bleeding. The provider documented that a 50 ml clot was evacuated from the lower uterine segment (LUS), and the fundus was firm ...
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A patient was seen for catheter ablation due to symptomatic atrial fibrillation. A diagnostic intracardiac electrophysiology study (EPS) with mapping and isolation of the four pulmonary veins was p...
When the sit...