Drainage, Evacuation: Difference between revisions

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**Drainage of a collection of blood or evacuation of a blood clot (e.g. in the head) --- '''but it does NOT include endarterectomy or thrombectomy''' -- see [[Extraction]]

**Drainage of fluid -- e.g. from a joint

***Diagnostic joint taps are listed as [[Arthrocentesis, diagnostic]] in the quick pick list

**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)

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.

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 **Drainage of a collection of blood or evacuation of a blood clot (e.g. in the head) --- '''but it does NOT include endarterectomy or thrombectomy''' -- see [[Extraction]]
 **Drainage of fluid -- e.g. from a joint
+***Diagnostic joint taps are listed as [[Arthrocentesis, diagnostic]] in the quick pick list
 **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)
 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.
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