Foreign body in intestine and colon (936)

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930 (Foreign body on external eye) 930.1 (Corneal foreign body) 931 (Foreign body in the ear) 932 (Foreign body in the nose) 933.0 (Foreign body in pharynx) 933.1 (Foreign body in larynx) 934.0 (Foreign body in trachea) 934.1 (Foreign body [...]

How would you report this procedure?Test your operative report interpretation skills with this case study from a Urology Coding Alert subscriber in Springfield, Ill. Indication: Patient has history of a neobladder with a stone in distal right ureter. He had [...]

Question: My doctor did a looposcopy with lithotripsy and stone removal. What is the proper coding for this procedure? Maryland Subscriber Answer: First, report CPT 52318 (Litholapaxy: crushing or fragmentation of calculus by any means in bladder and removal of [...]

Question: How should I report a cystoscopy and change and replacement of right ureteral stent through an ileal conduit loop? Massachusetts Subscriber Answer: When your urologist is changing an externally accessible ureteral stent exiting from the ileal stomal ostium and [...]

Question: I'm trying to find the code for a percutaneous cystolithotomy. I can only find the code for an open cystolithotomy. Per the op note, "The patient has a neobladder, and a physician placed two percutaneous tubes via interventional radiological [...]

Question: My physician gave me charges for an EGD with foreign-body removal connected to diagnosis of 936. He also performed a gastric biopsy with cold forceps for acute gastritis without obstruction. In the op note, he states that the foreign [...]

Question: An established 64-year-old patient complaining of rectal pain and abdominal cramps reports to the surgeon. During a level-four E/M service, the surgeon discovers a foreign body (FB) in the colon. The surgeon then removes the FB via flexible sigmoidoscopy. [...]

Hint: You can't always bill moderate sedation separately Question: An established patient complaining of rectal pain and abdominal cramps reports to our surgeon. During a level-four E/M service, the surgeon discovers a foreign body (FB) in the colon. The surgeon then [...]

Hint: You can't always bill moderate sedation separatelyQuestion: An established patient complaining of rectal pain and abdominal cramps reports to our surgeon. During a level-four E/M service, the surgeon discovers a foreign body (FB) in the colon. The surgeon then [...]