Pt comes into clinic to have hearing aid fixed-battery dead or aid not working, any problem with the aid itself. What diagnosis are you using? The hearing loss or other as I cannot find a diagnosis for a complication/malfunction of a hearing aid. Z46.1 hearing aid fitting/adjustment states that it does not include a malfunctioning aid.
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broken port a cath retrieval via heart cath
One of my cardiologists performed a heart cath (via the subclavian and the groin) in order to retrieve a broken piece of a port-a-cath that had floated into the atrium and then lodged in the ventricle. We have never had to code this procedure before; and I am looking at 37197. He states that he had go through both locations simultaneously to guide the piece out of the ventricle and out of the body. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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