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ICD-10-CM provides codes to identify the Glasgow coma scale (GCS) score. When the patient presents with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), these codes are used in conjunction with the specific codes d...

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A patient with left lung cancer presents for bronchoscopic placement of fiducial marker to target the left lung tumor. The fiducial marker was placed; the patient was discharged and scheduled for C...

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A patient presented to the hospital with a large right perihilar mass. She was not a surgical candidate, and had fiducial marker placement and endoscopic transbronchial needle aspiration biopsy of ...

The radiolog...

The patient presented to the hospital for repair of right femoral artery pseudoaneurysm. At surgery, dissection was undertaken down to the inguinal ligament and the common femoral artery was identi...

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The patient is a 65-year-old male with a history of chronic peripheral artery disease (PAD), who had previously undergone right femoral-popliteal bypass grafting using saphenous vein. One year afte...

The pseudoan...

How should a nonhealing surgical wound be coded?

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Does the advice from Coding Clinic, First Quarter 2010, page 5, regarding the coding of neurologic deficits caused by CVA even when they have resolved at the time of discharge from hospita...

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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-...

Microcoils a...

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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