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The patient has a debridement (11043) performed on a wound in the hospital outpatient department. Seven days later, the patient returns to the hospital outpatient department and the physician asses...
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What is the appropriate code assignment for a perm-a-catheter placed for dialysis? The catheter was placed into the atrium. Our physician calls this an Ashsplit catheter. We were informed that the ...
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This patient with a torn rotator cuff and labrum tear was seen at our facility for an arthroscopy of the right shoulder with debridement of the rotator cuff tear and labrum tear. He also underwent ...
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We are in the process of building a single line item charge in a chargemaster to include the supply and the placement procedure for drug eluting stents. What would the appropriate revenue code be f...
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At our facility we were using codes C1762 (Connective tissue human tissue lata) and C1763 (Connective tissue non-human) for sclera tissue purchased from the eye bank. What codes would I use n...
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When a patient has a laboratory panel test (eg. 80053) and then due to an abnormal result has a repeat individual test performed (eg. 84520) which modifier is more appropriate to append to the CPT ...
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A patient with diabetes mellitus type 2 complained of weakness, nausea, vomiting and fever. There was a strong smell of ketones on examination, with levels of 3+ on urinalysis and blood glucose at ...
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How should a type 2 NSTEMI due to demand ischemia be coded?
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What code should be assigned when a patient is readmitted to the hospital with a new type 2 acute myocardial infarction occurring within four weeks of either a previous type 1 or type 2 acute myoca...
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A 75-year-old patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus is admitted for treatment of a nonhealing diabetic ulcer of the right ankle with muscle involvement. There is no evidence of necrosis on visual i...
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