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A 15-year-old male was brought to the ED by ambulance after passing out. His cousin told the nurse that they played the pass out game by choking each other because they wanted to get high. The prov...
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The patient was admitted for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) for treatment of severe coronary artery disease. The procedure consisted of aortocoronary bypass graft to the posterior descending b...
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The patient underwent placement of two overlapping drug-eluting stents to treat a long lesion in the left anterior descending coronary artery with another drug-eluting stent placed in the left circ...
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The patient presented with stenosis of her coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). The provider documented that a portion of the saphenous vein graft was stenotic due to further progression of atheros...
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The patient had a lesion within the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery that extended into the diagonal 1 branch artery at the bifurcation. Two drug-eluting stents were placed percutaneo...
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The patient had a lesion within the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery that extended into the diagonal 1 branch artery at the bifurcation. A drug-eluting stent was placed percutaneously...
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A patient with severe claudication underwent angiography which revealed 90% heavily calcified stenosis involving the distal right common femoral artery extending into the origin of the right superf...
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On the wound care progress note the physician documented that an excisional debridement of the skin of the buttock was carried out. Would this be coded as excisional debridement?
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The physician performed excisional debridement of a coccyx wound down to the fascia and including bone. How should this debridement be coded?
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In terms of coding excisional debridement, does dissection mean the same as excisional? For example, the provider’s documentation states: “The debridement was sharp using knife dissection.”&n...
No, knife di...