Key Learning Points Flashcards
How is ECT coded?
Each individual treatment within a course must be recorded seperately.
- 1st administration within a course = A83.8 Other specified electroconvulsove therapy in primary
- If a number of courses are administered during the same episode, each A83.8 must be assigned before assigning A83.9
- Subsequent administrations in the same course of therapy must be coded as A83.9 Unspecified electroconvulsive therapy (even if in a subsequent spell)
When is a site code required when coding procedures on cranial nerves?
When the specific cranial nerve is listed as an inclusion at the code.
Example: A32.2 Decompression of oculomotor nerve (iii)
Includes: Decompression of trochlear nerve (iv)
Decompression of abducens nerve (vi)
Why must care be taken when coding neurostimulators?
There are different categories depending on where they are positioned.
According to PChSC1, which code must be assigned in addition to show that a procedure is a MIGS (Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery) procedure?
Y76.9 Unspecified minimal access to other body cavity.
If mediastinal lymph nodes are biopsied/sampled during an EBUS-TBNA what type of code should be added?
A Chapter T code as operations on lymph nodes are classified to Chapter T and are not included at E63.- Diagnostic examination of mediastinum.
When must ventilation support (E85) be coded?
Codes within this category (E85) must always be assigned when ventilation support is performed in either an inpatient or outpatient setting.
This is an exception to PCSE4 which states codes E85-E98 must only be used in an outpatient setting or when admitted solely for the purpose of the procedure/intervention.
How must a gastroscopy be coded when described as ‘failed intubation’ ?
If the patient is unable to tolerate the scope and failed intubation is documented, the procedure must not be coded unless the point of abandonment is beyond the mouth.
When banding of haemorrhoids is carried out in conjunction with an endoscopic procedure, how should this be coded?
Both the code for the Rubber band ligation of haemorrhoids (H52.4) and the endoscopic procedure must be assigned.
If a procedure performed on a blood vessel of the liver does not have a specific code in Chapter J (Other abdominal organs - principally digestive) but one exists in Chapter L (Arteries and Veins), how should this be coded?
The Chapter L code must be assigned.
How should a failed or abandoned ERPC be coded?
Must still be coded as J43.9 Unspecified diagnostic endoscopic retrograde examination of bile duct and pancreatic duct.
This is an exception to the coding standard for failed procedures (PGCS3)
When ERCP is performed at the same time as a cholecystectomy, how should this be sequenced?
ERCP must be coded in a secondary position to the cholecystectomy.
According to PChSK1 how should percutaneous transluminal operations be coded when no specific 4th character procedure code exists to classify the procedure at a percutaneous transluminal category?
- Open procedure code
- Y79.- Aprroach to organ through artery or Y76.8 Other specified minimal access to other body cavity (if through vein)
- Y53.- Approach to organ under image control or Y68.- Other approach to organ under image control
- Z site code (if applicable)
If more than one percutaneous transuminal procedure has been performed, a code from Y79/Y76.8 must be assigned after each procedure code
Which codes must not be assigned in addition to codes from Chapter K?
Z94.- Laterality of operation
When angiocardiography (ventriculography) of the heart (K63.1-K63.3) is performed during the same radiology/theatre visit as coronary arteriography (K63.4-K63.6), what must be coded?
Both procedures must be recorded.
Why must a code from K65 Catheterisation of heart not be assigned in addition to codes in category K63 Contrast radiology of heart?
Because catheterisation is implicit within these codes.
Which type of procedures on blood vessels are excluded from Chapter L (Arteries and Veins)?
Procedures carried out on coronary blood vessels which are classified to Chapter K (Heart) instead.
When should codes L65-L72 not be used ?
When an intervention is classifiable within a named artery category from L01-L63.
When must codes from L71 Therapeutic transluminal operations on other artery (principle) and L66 Other therapeutic transluminal operations on artery (extended) be used?
Must be used to code interventions not classifiable at 4th character level within named artery categories.
What subsidiary code is also required when coding procedures classified to L71 Therapeutic transluminal operations on other artery (principle) and L66 Other therapeutic transluminal operations on artery (extended)?
A site code from Chapter Z as the categories L66 and L71 are not site specific.
If a procedure cannot be classified at a specific fourth-character within L66 and L71, what must be used?
The .8 and .9 subcategories at named artery categories.
What code range must the coder use when an artery or its branches is not specified at the category or code description or at the category inclusion?
L65-L72 with the addition of a site code from Chapter Z where available.
When an artery is listed as an inclusion term at a code in Chapter L, what must be assigned in addition?
A site code from Chapter Z.
What must be coded when angioplasty/venoplasty and insertion of stent are performed at the same time where individual codes for each are available?
Only the code for the stent/stent graft insertion is required because angioplasty/venoplasty is implicit within the stent/stent graft insertion code.
What do the codes from categories L76, L89 or O20 indicate? (used in addition to Chapter L codes for insertion or stent/stent grafts)
The type and number of stents/stent grafts.