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**Paracentesis when done for therapeutic reasons (use [[Paracentesis (diagnostic)]] for diagnostic ones) | **Paracentesis when done for therapeutic reasons (use [[Paracentesis (diagnostic)]] for diagnostic ones) | ||
***we are aware that this will not distinguish surgical from nonsurgical drainage procedures; this is one of the consequences of NOT including the next layer to CCI coding (i.e. "how" the thing was done) | ***we are aware that this will not distinguish surgical from nonsurgical drainage procedures; this is one of the consequences of NOT including the next layer to CCI coding (i.e. "how" the thing was done) | ||
See also [[Bypass]] for some similar things. | |||
{{discussion}}Are we not to use this for diagnostic taps? I just tried to use this code with a "ankle joint (D)" to indicate that they did a needle aspirate culture. I am getting an error code, because it wants me to use a therapeutic instead of diagnostic code. | |||
{{CCI Collection Mode}} | {{CCI Collection Mode}} | ||