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A patient underwent a repeat low transverse cesarean section. During the cesarean delivery, vacuum extraction was used to assist with the delivery of the infant. What is the correct ICD-10-PCS qual...
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The patient was taken to the operating room post vaginal delivery for control of bleeding using a Bakri balloon. We are unsure if the Bakri balloon is coded to the Obstetrics section or the Medical...
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How is an open posterior colporrhaphy/rectocele repair coded in PCS? Should one or two codes be assigned for this procedure?
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What is the appropriate ICD-10-PCS code, when a combination of drugs is administered during a single injection (e.g., corticosteroid and local anesthetic)?
...If two subst...
We are requesting that the Coding Clinic Editorial Advisory Board revisit advice published about non-Candida albicans sepsis. The Alphabetic Index under the term “Sepsis, candida,” directs to c...
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Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2013, advised the assignment of codes that describe the destruction of the right and left pulmonary veins (025T3ZZ and 025S3ZZ), for catheter ablation around ...
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A patient with stenosis of the right and left external iliac veins and right and left common iliac veins presented for treatment. Access to the vasculature was from the left common femoral vein usi...
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A patient with an appendiceal tubular adenoma presented for a laparoscopic appendectomy with partial cecectomy. The ports were inserted, and the appendix and cecal cap were divided. The specimen wh...
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A patient presented with acute appendicitis and an inflamed cecum. Ports were placed and the appendix was removed laparoscopically. It was noted that there was exudate on the cecum, and while the c...
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A patient status post deep venous arterialization (DVA), a procedure in which arterial blood is shunted to the deep veins, presented with an endoleak at the proximal anastomosis at the left posteri...
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