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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 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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A patient presented to the ED with a complaint of left flank tenderness for three days. The patient denied dysuria, hematuria, or penile pain. Physical exam was remarkable for tenderness of the lef...
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A patient was admitted due to a 4-day history of intractable nausea and vomiting. The patient was not able to keep food down and could only drink very little liquids. The physician noted that the p...
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A 37-year-old patient was admitted for debridement of chronic ulcers of the right and left forearms. The ulcers expressed a copious purulent discharge with areas of necrosis of the subcutaneous tis...
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