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    Wiki Help with coding an inpatient stay after a hysterectomy

    Here is a summary of what happened with this patient. She had a TVH and on post op day 10 she was admitted as inpatient for post op fever, nausea vomiting, lack of appetite. She was diagnosed with vaginal cuff cellulitis and my MD did a fine needle aspiration of a vaginal cuff seroma. The...
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    Wiki Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair question

    If the patient had a massive rotator cuff tear that was attempted to be repaired with marginal convergence was not able to be secured to bone once it was sutured, would this be 29827 with a 52 modifier or is there a more appropriate code for what was actually performed? Thanks in advance.
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    Wiki AAA Repair

    Surgeon A: Main body - 34802 and 75962 Surgeon B: Deployment of contra limb Gore excluder device - 34825 and 75953? Aortic cuff extension cuff - 3482 or 34826? and 75953 AA w/bil. runoff bundled Nonsel. cath placement in aorta 36200...
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    Wiki Am I giving this OP Note too much thought?!?! Help please! :)

    PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Rotator cuff tear, right shoulder. POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSES: 1. Severe degenerative arthritis glenohumeral joint, right shoulder involving the humeral head and the glenoid. Photographs were taken. 2. Partial tear rotator cuff, less than 50%. No evidence of severe...
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