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Patient presents for treatment of Dupuytren’s contracture of the left hand and sesamoid arthritis. The pretendinous cords over the third and fourth metacarpals of the palm area were injected with...
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A patient with Achilles tendinosis received an injection of Amniofix to the left Achilles tendon. Based on the operative report the Amniofix was reconstituted with injectable saline and then inject...
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A patient underwent a right nipple-sparing mastectomy and a left skin-sparing mastectomy with a left axillary dissection. Should CPT code 19307, Mastectomy, modified radical, including axillary...
A skin-spari...
The physician orders a 24-hour urine calcium and we assigned CPT code 82340, Calcium; urine quantitative, timed specimen. However, at some of our labs, a 24-hour urine calcium test always ...
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A patient with chronic pelvic pain and severe dyspareunia presents for laparoscopy. The patient was brought to the operating room and given general anesthesia. The laparoscopy was started and numer...
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A patient presents to have a diagnostic laparoscopy with lysis of dense adhesions of the bowel and omentum (previous ruptured appendix) and drainage of bilateral endometriomas.
Once th...
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Patient presents with adhesions of the ossicular chain with reduced mobility and other diagnoses. A tympanotomy was performed and a flap created and elevated. The ossicular chain became visible and...
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Patient with a history of laparoscopic and hysteroscopic myomectomy, previous abdominoplasty presents with extensive adhesions.
Extensive lysis of adhesions were performed to free the ...
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Clarification is needed regarding whether it is appropriate to append a modifier to an unlisted CPT code. There are several CPT Assistants archives, which state that it is inappropriate be...
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Please clarify if the coding instruction provided in AHA Coding Clinic for HCPCS 3Q 2015 and Coding Clinic for HCPCS 2Q 2014 continues to apply in 2017 as it relates to hospital-b...
The guidance...