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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...
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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...
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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...
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A patient with stenosis of the right and left external iliac veins and right and left common iliac veins presented for treatment. Access to the vasculature was from the left common femoral vein usi...
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A patient with an appendiceal tubular adenoma presented for a laparoscopic appendectomy with partial cecectomy. The ports were inserted, and the appendix and cecal cap were divided. The specimen wh...
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A patient presented with acute appendicitis and an inflamed cecum. Ports were placed and the appendix was removed laparoscopically. It was noted that there was exudate on the cecum, and while the c...
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A patient status post deep venous arterialization (DVA), a procedure in which arterial blood is shunted to the deep veins, presented with an endoleak at the proximal anastomosis at the left posteri...
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A patient with mixed conductive and sensorineural hearing loss in the right ear presented for implantation of an Osia® system with a 4mm abutment. The implant site was marked and a posterior incis...
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An abdominal fat pad biopsy was performed due to concern for recurrent amyloidosis. A horizontal incision was made in the left mid abdomen approximately 2 cm in length. The underlying fatty tissue ...
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A patient with a large abscess on his back presented with significant purulent drainage. An oval longitudinal oriented skin incision was made with sharp dissection. An upper cyst that had thick pur...
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