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A patient with congenital absence of the vagina (vaginal agenesis) is admitted for vaginal construction. The physician performed a laparoscopic-assisted colovaginoplasty with development of sigmoid...
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A patient with adenocarcinoma of the appendix with peritoneal metastasis presented for scheduled hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). The patient underwent cytoreductive surgery, alon...
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The patient is a 75-year-old male with coronary artery disease, who is admitted for a nonST elevation myocardial infarction. Coronary angiography reveals a heavily calcified 80% left main stenosis....
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The patient is a 48-year-old woman with a diagnosis of retroperitoneal sarcoma, who had previously undergone resection of a welldifferentiated sarcoma followed by re-excision of local recurrence, ...
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Is it appropriate to utilize patient self-reported documentation to assign codes for social determinants of health, such as information found in categories Z55-Z65, Persons with potential health ha...
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Please define “clinicians” in the context of the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, which allow code assignment for social determinants of health codes based on me...
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A single liveborn newborn is kept in the hospital an additional two days for evaluation of possible infantile genetic agranulocytosis, which was subsequently ruled out. How should this be coded?&nb...
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A 10-day-old male infant was admitted to the hospital for difficulty breathing and poor feeding. He was diagnosed with coarctation of the transverse aorta and underwent surgery. What is the princip...
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