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The Central Office has received several requests to clarify advice published in Coding Clinic, Third Quarter, 2015, page 21, about encephalopathy due to diabetic hypoglycemia. When the ter...
Codes E11.64...
Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter 2014, pages 47-48 clarified that when peri-pulmonary vein catheter ablation is performed to treat atrial fibrillation, code 02583ZZ, Destruction of conduction...
The conducti...
An issue was published in Coding Clinic, Third Quarter 2014 regarding a modified left atrial Maze procedure performed during a coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The published advice wa...
The conducti...
Are HCPCS codes J1020, Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 20 mg, J1030, Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg, and J1040, Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg, ...
Units of dru...
What is a “per unit” dose? In HCPCS codes J1020, Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 20 mg, J1030, Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg, and J1040, Injection, m...
Drugs are ap...
What is the appropriate code assignment for a patient that receives 3 mg of Celestone? HCPCS code J0702 states “Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg.” &...
Units of dru...
Our facility has a concern regarding when it is appropriate to report CPT code 63047, Laminectomy, facetectomy and foraminotomy (unilateral or bilateral with decompression of spinal cord, cauda...
It would be ...
Patient presents for treatment of Dupuytren’s contracture of the left hand and sesamoid arthritis. The pretendinous cords over the third and fourth metacarpals of the palm area were injected with...
Assign CPT c...
A patient with Achilles tendinosis received an injection of Amniofix to the left Achilles tendon. Based on the operative report the Amniofix was reconstituted with injectable saline and then inject...
There is no ...
A patient underwent a right nipple-sparing mastectomy and a left skin-sparing mastectomy with a left axillary dissection. Should CPT code 19307, Mastectomy, modified radical, including axillary...
A skin-spari...