A patient comes to the gynecologist ' s office to check if she is pregnant. A urine sample is taken and tested. The visual result is positive that she is pregnant.
What CPT® code is reported '
A driver loses control of a vehicle and crashes into a guardrail on the side of the highway. The patient sustains a fracture of the anterior fossa cranial base. Imaging confirms Involvement of the sphenoid sinus, but no cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak is identified. The patient undergoes a surgical nasal sinus endoscopy with sphenoidotomy lo evaluate and treat the sinus injury. No CSF leak repair is performed.
What is the correct procedure and diagnosis coding combination to report this service?
A pediatrician is requested to attend a high-risk delivery and performs initial stabilization of the newborn after cesarean delivery.
What E/M service is reported?
A 52-year-old woman has been experiencing discomfort and itching In the vulvar area for several months. She has a history of abnormal Pap smears and a recent biopsy revealed vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN III). Decision has been made to perform a vulvectomy.
Procedure: Under general anesthesia, the surgeon made an incision in the vulvar area and removed the vulva (more than 80%), including the affected skin and deep subcutaneous tissue.
What CPT® and ICD-10-CM codes are reported?
A 32-year-old is in the outpatient clinic for an esophagoscopy due to increased difficulty swallowing with his eosinophilic esophagitis. The flexible scope is inserted in the mouth and into the
esophagus. Examination of the esophagus noted narrowing in the distal esophagus. Following an injection of Kenalog, a transendoscopic balloon dilation was performed in the area of
stenosis. Inflation was repeated eventually reaching 18 mm in diameter. What CPT® coding is reported for this procedure?
(ESTABLISHED PATIENT VISIT: A 37-year-old woman presents with coughing, congestion, upper respiratory symptoms, and headache for two days. Complete ROS negative except as noted. No significant past/family history. Exam: stable vitals, nasal congestion, normal TMs, occasional rhonchi, no wheezing, normal heart, soft abdomen. Assessment/Plan:Acute upper respiratory infection, fluids,amoxicillinfor 5–7 days, return precautions. What CPT® code is reported?)
What is the HCPCS Level II code for a standard wheelchair?
When a patient has ESRD, which system is affected?
What CPT® coding is reported for a subtotal thyroidectomy for malignancy with radical neck dissection?
(A patient training for a marathon collapsed due to heat exhaustion on a very hot day and is treated at a nonfacility urgent care center. The physician diagnoses heat exhaustion and dehydration and begins IV therapy of normal saline (pre-packaged fluid and electrolytes). The hydration lasts1 hour and 30 minutes. What CPT® coding is reported?)
