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The patient was admitted with gastrointestinal bleeding. The provider performed microbead embolization to the inferior mesenteric artery, to totally occlude the artery. What is the appropriate ICD-...
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The patient suffered lower gastrointestinal bleeding and was treated with endovascular embolization using microcoils to stop the blood flow. The bleeding site was found in the proximal left descend...
Microcoils a...
Working at a psychiatric hospital, we often come across the diagnosis of “complicated bereavement.” What is the correct code for “complicated bereavement” when there is no mention of adjust...
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If a physician documents heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), heart failure with preserved systolic function, and/or heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), heart f...
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What is the appropriate code assignment for acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy?
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A patient, status post coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), is admitted due to significant in-stent restenosis in a previously placed stent in the saphenous vein graft within the distal anastomosis...
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A skin substitute, such as Integra, is an acellular dermal replacement that is described as human-tissue-derived with the cellular DNA material removed. Though nonautologous tissue is used, it is m...
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A patient diagnosed with left buccal intraoral lymphatic malformation, underwent excision of the lesion, and grafting with Oasis® acellular matrix. In ICD-10-PCS, is the appropriate device charact...
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If the above patient underwent placement of an acellular matrix graft that contained a mixture of material, including both synthetic and biologic derived, what would the correct device character be...
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The patient presented with severe lumbar spondylosis. The surgeon accomplished posterior lumbar interbody fusion L3-L4 and L4-L5 using autologous bone graft, discectomy of L3-L4 and L4-L5, packing ...
Discectomy i...