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What codes are assigned for leakage of a cystostomy catheter causing irritant contact dermatitis due to urine?
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A patient previously underwent a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine for low back pain, and the provider’s final interpretation was Modic type endplate changes. He now presents for a fo...
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Is it appropriate to report CPT code 15002, Surgical preparation or creation of recipient site by excision of open wounds, burn eschar, or scar (including subcutaneous tissues), or incisional r...
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Is it appropriate to report CPT code 15002, Surgical preparation or creation of recipient site by excision of open wounds, burn eschar, or scar (including subcutaneous tissues), or incisional r...
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Patient had a previous excisional biopsy of the mid-upper back. This proved to be a poorly differentiated possibly metastatic desmoplastic spindle cell melanoma into the soft tissues of back. The p...
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A patient was seen at our facility with a diagnosis of Bartholin’s cyst. She was scheduled to undergo an aspiration of the cyst. It is a common procedure; however, there doesn’t appear to be a ...
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A hospital-employed nurse or technician may perform a procedure in an emergency department or clinic that was ordered by a physician, examples of these services include, but are not limited to, dru...
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Is CPT code 17999, Unlisted procedure, skin, mucous membrane and subcutaneous tissue, accurate for facility reporting of Lap Band adjustments performed at a facility under fluoroscopy, whe...
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A patient presents for evaluation of wounds that have been there for approximately 3 weeks. The wounds are described as “non healing (graft failure) secondary to burn from electrocution.” The p...
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Our facility has had a number of pacemaker pocket revisions where the pocket is relocated to a submuscular site rather than enlarging the existing subcutaneous pocket. Since the pocket revision CPT...
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