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    Wiki Interventional Cardiology Help!

    Hello, I have started to work at for a private cardiology clinic that also does interventional cardiology. I have self-taught this specific field so that I can be ready for it, and unfortunately I was thrown in without any mentors or the training of the previous coder/biller. I had a question...
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    Wiki Documentation

    I work for a private practice who has refused to provide proper documentation for many years. I am really pushing them to start documenting, but I am getting major push back. I am asking for some help as they will only look at payer guidelines, and nothing else. I need some resources or some...
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    • cardiac caths catherization documentation heart heart cath
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    Wiki Please help! Is this renal billable?

    Impressions Two-vessel coronary artery disease Severe in-stent restenosis within mid RCA Positive FFR of RCA Successful cutting balloon angioplasty to mid RCA with 3.0 x 10 mm Wolverine balloon Elevated LV filling pressure Abdominal aortography with runoff showing no severe renal artery stenosis...
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    Wiki Interventional Cardiology

    Please help! How would you code this one: Boy is 9 year-old born with double outlet right ventricle with a noncommitted inlet ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis. He proceeded down the route of single ventricle palliation due to mild right ventricular hypoplasia and straddling...
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    Wiki Physician proctoring another for caths

    One of our physicians (A) needs a certain number of cardiac catheritizations done to get cath priviledges as our local hospital. Another of our physicians(B) is "proctering" this physician (the proctor physician is not doing the procedure, just supervising) .The operative note is being done by...
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    Wiki Opinion Please Coronary angiogram

    The documentation is vague and I don't normally code these procedures.. The report states " introducer was placed in the right femoral artery. Cornary angiography was carried out in the standard manner using a 6 french left-4 judkins catheter and 6 french right -4 judkins catheter. Left...
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