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                    Total hip arthroplasty removed from inpatient-only list
             
          
      Appears in HCPCS: 2020 Number 1
      First Quarter Volume 20.
    
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              A patient with degenerative osteoarthritis complaining of severe pain and impaired function undergoes a left total hip replacement after getting no relief from conservative treatment including medi...
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HCPCS
    
                    Total hip arthroplasty removed from inpatient-only list
             
          
      Appears in HCPCS: 2020 Number 1
      First Quarter Volume 20.
    
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              A patient undergoes a cemented total hip arthroplasty using using polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA). How should this be coded?
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                    Multiple hernia repair
             
          
      Appears in HCPCS: 2020 Number 1
      First Quarter Volume 20.
    
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              A patient with a ventral hernia was prepped and the ports were inserted. As the incarcerated umbilical hernia was reduced into the abdominal cavity a second supraumbilical hernia defect was noted a...
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                    Descemet membrane stripping
             
          
      Appears in HCPCS: 2019 Number 3
      Third Quarter Volume 19.
    
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                    Mastectomy skin necrosis
             
          
      Appears in HCPCS: 2019 Number 3
      Third Quarter Volume 19.
    
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                    Lysis of adhesions
             
          
      Appears in HCPCS: 2019 Number 3
      Third Quarter Volume 19.
    
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                    Transanal minimally invasive surgery (TAMIS)
             
          
      Appears in HCPCS: 2019 Number 3
      Third Quarter Volume 19.
    
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                    Abbreviated breast magnetic resonance imaging (AB-MRI)
             
          
      Appears in HCPCS: 2019 Number 3
      Third Quarter Volume 19.
    
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                    Endoscopic excision of tongue base mass
             
          
      Appears in HCPCS: 2019 Number 3
      Third Quarter Volume 19.
    
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              HCPCS
    
                    CPT codes 19380 vs 19340 and 19371
             
          
      Appears in HCPCS: 2019 Number 3
      Third Quarter Volume 19.
    
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