Q&A Adjacent Tissue Transfer and Flaps - Medical Coding …
Sep 5, 2013 · Remember that flap procedures that fall in the 15550-15738 range are going to involve more than the "skin". They are going to include skin and deep tissues- or only deep tissues; muscle, vascular structures and sometimes nerves will all be part of the "flap".
Q&A - bilateral myocutaneous pectoralis muscle flap
Apr 25, 2013 · each muscle flap. Subsequently, using interrupted 0 Vicryl in a figure-of-eight manner, the myocutaneous flaps were reapproximated. After that, a single layer of 0 Vicryl fascial layer closure was undertaken, and the skin was closed with staples. Also, using the right subclavian approach, a Quinton catheter with two lumens for hemodialysis was ...
Understanding Tissue Grafts — VIDEO | CCO Medical Coding
Dec 26, 2012 · And normally, when I start teaching grafts, I’m going to be talking tonight about the free grafts where they’re you know, in the case of an auto graft, lifted from one part of the body and put on another part. It’s not a twisting around of the skin and making a flap or something like that. Maybe I’ll cover that on another webinar.
Q&A - Excludes conventions | Medical Coding Certification Forums
Aug 1, 2013 · A patient is respirator dependent and has a tracheostomy in need of revision due to redundant scar tissue formation surrounding the site. Under general anesthesia and establishing the airways to maintain ventilation, the scar disuse is resected and then repair is accomplished using skin flap rotation from the adjacent tissue of the neck.
Comments on #2 questions and what I missed on this scenario
Dec 18, 2012 · INDICATIONS: The patient had a YV advancement flap and advancement of the hamstring muscles about 3 weeks ago, but the wound separated and the muscles retracted over the area of the bone. She has had moderate separation of the wound but not complete separation, and we plan to minimally debride this area and resuture the wound with tension …
Cartilage CPT Guidance Excision – CPT Question – Video
May 5, 2015 · It was called an Antia-Buch advancement flap, it’s 10 sq cm, which is very important you need to know the size when you have anything like this going on, as well as, for your CPT, you need to know the size,you need to know what body part it’s being done on and that is a rearrangement.
Medical Coding Operative Report — Video | CCO Medical Coding
Jul 17, 2013 · It was going to be 15732 – muscle, myocutaneous, or fasciocutaneous flap, head and neck. Then, it gives you what muscles are involved – sternocleidomastoid, levator scapulae. And the plain English description: “The physician utilizes a graft of muscle, muscle and skin, or muscle fascia and a skin flap to repair a defect.”
Skin Grafts Medical Coding – When to Use One or Two Codes?
Apr 29, 2015 · if a physician does take a “full thickness” graft from say the upper back for the face (cheek, lip and nose) what is the diagnosis for the upper back? since the burn is on the face cheek, lip and nose those are the third degree burns, but the ‘harvest” full thickness from upper back caused a secondary defect, so does that use “open wound back Dx?”