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The Central Office has received several requests to clarify advice published in Coding Clinic, Third Quarter, 2015, page 21, about encephalopathy due to diabetic hypoglycemia. When the ter...
Codes E11.64...
Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter 2014, pages 47-48 clarified that when peri-pulmonary vein catheter ablation is performed to treat atrial fibrillation, code 02583ZZ, Destruction of conduction...
The conducti...
An issue was published in Coding Clinic, Third Quarter 2014 regarding a modified left atrial Maze procedure performed during a coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The published advice wa...
The conducti...
A 69-year-old man with recurrent incisional hernia is admitted to undergo an incisional herniorrhaphy with mesh. An incision was made in the midline and carried through the skin and subcutaneous ti...
No, do not a...
A 65-year-old man was admitted and underwent emergent surgery secondary to incarcerated ventral hernia due to adhesions. The surgeon carried out laparoscopic ventral hernia repair with mesh. Accord...
In this inst...
The patient had uterine adenocarcinoma and was admitted for surgery. The surgeon noted in the dictated report that numerous adhesions between the abdominal wall and uterus were carefully and thorou...
Yes. Assign ...
A patient underwent exploratory laparotomy with lysis of adhesions and colostomy with removal of polyp of the ascending colon and repair of umbilical hernia. The lysis of adhesions was undertaken c...
No, do not a...
How would a diagnosis of “postoperative seroma” be coded in ICD-10-CM?
...Currently, I...
A 55-year-old woman presents to the hospital with a five-day history of abdominal pain, fever and chills. An exploratory laparotomy was performed which revealed a perforated appendix. The entire ap...
An ileocecec...
A 69-year-old patient, who was diagnosed with volvulus of the right colon, underwent right colectomy. Would separate codes be assigned for the resection of the cecum with appendix and excision of t...
Although the...