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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...
The root ope...
How is an open posterior colporrhaphy/rectocele repair coded in PCS? Should one or two codes be assigned for this procedure?
...In the conte...
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...
Coding C...
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 ...
Upon further...
The patient presented for an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) with endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). The flexible endoscope was passed under direct vision through the mouth and advanced to the second pa...
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A patient with a history of transforaminal discectomy at T10-T11 presents for treatment of thoracic myelopathy with recurrent herniated disc at T10-T11 and spondylosis at T11-T12. Linear and midlin...
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Following the patient’s right modified radical mastectomy and axillary lymphadenectomy, the axially lymphadenectomy wound was repaired, in part, by a lateral intercostal artery perforator (LICAP)...
Based on the...
A patient over the age of 12, with obstructive sleep apnea presents for bilateral tonsillectomy and expansion sphincteroplasty. The right tonsil was grasped with a tenaculum and retracted from the ...
In this case...