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An 8-year-old undergoes tonsillectomy with adenoidectomy for chronic tonsillitis and adenoiditis with hypertrophy.

What CPT® and ICD-10-CM codes are reported?

An ED provider evaluates a patient with NSTEMI, consults cardiology, and the patient is admitted for PCI.

What E/M service and ICD-10-CM coding is reported by the ED provider?

A physician orders a CT scan of the abdomen without contrast.

What CPT® coding is reported?

A 5-year-old is brought to the QuickCare in the ED to repair two lacerations: a 3 cm laceration on her right arm and 2 cm laceration on her nose. Her arm is repaired with a simple one-layer closure with sutures. Her nose is repaired with a simple repair using tissue adhesive, 2-cyanoacrylate.

How are the repairs reported?

The documentation states:

“A punch is placed and pushed downward to obtain a tissue sample for a biopsy of the lunula.”

What anatomical structure is being biopsied?

What is the ICD-10-CM code for a medial meniscus tear of the left knee due to a recent football injury?

The human shoulder is made of which three bones?

A surgeon performed Mohs micrographic surgery on a lesion on the right arm. This required one stage with six tissue blocks.

What CPT@ codes are reported for the Mohs surgery?

An inpatient, suffering from hypertension and chronic kidney disease, is administered continuous venovenous hemofiltration. The on-duty nephrologist performs a series repeated low-level evaluation and management services to monitor the patient's status.

What is the CPT® and ICD-10-CM coding'

Preoperative diagnosis: Right thigh benign congenital hairy nevus. *1

Postoperative diagnosis: Right thigh benign congenital hairy 0 nevus.

Operation performed: Excision of right thigh benign congenital>1

nevus, excision size with margins 4.5 cm and closure size 5 cm.

Anesthesia: General.0

Intraoperative antibiotics: Ancef.0

Indications: The patient is a 5-year-old girl who presented with her parents for evaluation of her right thigh congenital nevus. It has been followed by pediatrics and thought to have changed over the past year. Family requested excision. They understood the risks involved, which included but were not limited to risks of general

anesthesia, infection, bleeding, wound dehiscence, and poor scar formation. They understood the scar would likely widen as the child grows because of the location of it and because of the age of the patient. They consented to proceed.

Description of procedure: The patient was seen preoperatively in > I the holding area, identified, and then brought to the operating room. Once adequate general anesthesia had been induced, the patient's right thigh was prepped and draped in standard surgical fashion. An elliptical excision measuring 6 x 1.8 cm had been marked. This was injected with Lidocaine with epinephrine, total of 6 cc of 1% with 1:100,000. After an adequate amount of time, a #15 blade was used to sharply excise this full thickness.

This was passed to pathology for review. The wound required □ limited undermining in the deep subcutaneous plane on both sides for approximately 1.5 cm in order to allow mobilization of the skin for closure. The skin was then closed in a layered fashion using 3-0 Vicryl on the dermis and then 4-0 Monocryl running subcuticular in the skin, the wound was cleaned and dressed with Dermabond and Steri-Strips.

The patient was then cleaned and turned over to anesthesia for S extubation.

She was extubated successfully in the operating room and taken S to the recovery room in stable condition. There were no complications.

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