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The patient, who is at 32 weeks pregnant, has been hospitalized due to an infection of COVID-19.
What ICD-10-CM codes are reported?
A patient presents to the ER from a nursing home after the patient was found to have foul smelling, large sacral pressure ulcer during daily nursing rounds. The ER provider swabbed the wound
for culture (which measured at 7cm in largest diameter); then cleaned the site before painting with povidone around the entire sacrum to reduce cutaneous bacterial load. The provider made an
elliptical excision with 3mm margins around the outer edge of the ulcer and removed the lesion in its entirety. Further examination revealed deep tissue damage, prompting muscle and
segmental bone removal. The wound was then closed using a layered skin flap closure.
What CPT® coding and ICD-10-CM coding is reported?
A 44-year-old female patient came in for a planned laparoscopic total abdominal hysterectomy for endometriosis of the uterus. The surgeon attached the trocars, a scope is inserted examining
the uterus, abdominal wall, bilateral ovaries, and fallopian tubes. The surgeon decided to convert the laparoscopic procedure to an open total hysterectomy because of the extensive amount of
adhesions that need to be removed. A total hysterectomy was performed and due to removal of the extensive adhesions the surgery took longer than normal of 2 hours.
What CPT® and diagnosis codes are reported?