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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 46-year-old patient presented for radiation due to stage 3 inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) of the left breast. The patient has progressive unilateral left breast erythema with increasing swellin...
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A patient with type 2 diabetic chronic kidney disease (CKD), stage 2, has a history of bariatric surgery due to morbid obesity. The patient has lost a significant amount of weight and no longer req...
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A patient with type 2 diabetic mellitus has a history of bariatric surgery due to morbid obesity. The patient has lost a significant amount of weight and no longer requires antidiabetic medication....
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A patient presented to the emergency department (ED) with bilateral flank pain and lower abdominal pain of the left quadrant. The patient was evaluated for the pain, but all labs and CT results wer...
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