A patient receives 200 mg IM Depo-Testosterone.
What HCPCS Level II coding is reported?
Which CPT® code can append modifier 50?
Adenoids, tonsils, appendix, and spleen belong to which organ system?
A patient with severe diverticulitis in the sigmoid colon presents to surgery for a partial colectomy. The physician performs an exploratory laparoscopic laparotomy to verify the location of the diverticulitis. Once identified, it was noted that there was bleeding from the diverticulitis. The physician transects the descending colon and then transects at the line of the rectum.
The physician mobilizes the splenic flexure in order to create a colostomy with the proximal portion of the remaining colon. The distal portion of the colon is closed. The physician washes the patient's abdomen with saline, removes all trocars and instruments, and then closes the abdomen with sutures.
What CPT® and ICD-10-CM codes are reported?
A patient is seen at the doctor's office for nausea, vomiting, and sharp right lower abdominal pain. CT scan of the abdomen is ordered. Labs come back indicating an increased WBC count with review of the abdominal CT scan. The physician determines the patient has a ruptured appendicitis. The physician schedules an appendectomy and takes the patient to the operating room. The appendix is severed from the intestines and removed via scope inserted through an umbilical incision. What CPT® and diagnosis codes are reported?
A flexible sigmoidoscopy is performed with ablation of two sigmoid colon polyps.
What CPT® and ICD-10-CM codes are reported?
A patient with compression fractures of L5 and the sacrum undergoes vertebroplasty, with cement injected into two vertebral bodies, performed bilaterally.
What CPT® coding is reported?
A 20-year-old female is being seen for the first time by a primary care physician to have a yearly physical. During the examination for the physical, the provider discovers non-inflammed lesions on her legs and arms. The physician performs a complete physical and additional separate documentation for the treatment of the lesions on the bilateral upper and lower extremities. The provider has the patient buy an over-the-counter ointment and will continue to watch them.
What CPT® coding is reported for this visit?
A diagnostic mammogram is performed on the left and right breasts. Computer-aided detection is also used to further analyze the image for possible lesions.
What CPT® coding is reported for this radiology service?
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?
