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Wiki 65400 ptk

My doctor is asking if 65400 RT and LT are allowed to be preformed during the same session. The patient doesn't want to go to the surgery center multiple times, so we are trying to accommodate. Also, will the second eye be paid at a reduced rate because of being done the same day? I've been...
- Andrea828
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- Feb 9, 2016
- 65400 day paid rate reduced
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Billing/Reimbursement
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Wiki Hospital E&M Repeat Procedure Question same visit

If a patient came into the ER w/ a fractured elbow. The MD decides to sedate the patient and perform a manipulation and reduction. Procedure went well but when the patient went for X-Ray, somehow the elbow dislocated again. So they brought the patient back to the room, sedated him a second...
- Pvdcoder
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- Jan 15, 2016
- conscious dislocated procedure reduced sedated
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Outpatient Facilities
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Wiki nailplate reduced

Diagnosis: Onychodystrophy of toenails. Then provider states "nailplate reduced bilaterally 1." There is no description in his note of how this was done (such as digital block placed, etc.). Is this the same as trimming of nails (G0127)? Or is this avulsion of nailplate (11730, 11732)? Or...
- tag60
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- Dec 24, 2015
- description nailplate provider reduced trimming
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Podiatry

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