Question please help with # 8.10.12.14.16. thanks Por items through 14, assign the correct CPT code(s) and the appropriate modifiers (CPT and HCPCS National). 7. The patient underwent a percutaneous core needle biopsy of the right breast with the use of stereotactic guidance. 62 Chapter 3 Modifiers 8. The physician performed a partial avulsion of the nail plate of the left thumb. 9. A patient was taken to the outpatient surgery suite for an excisional debridement of the skin that extended into the muscle. The patient was prepared for surgery, but the physician was called for an emergency surgery of a trauma patient and the outpatient surgery was cancelled before anesthesia was administered. Assign the code(s) to be reported by the hospital. 10. Chemodenervation of salivary glands (two glands injected) 11. The surgeon performed a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The procedure was complicated due to the fact that the patient had extensive adhesions that required over two hours to lysis. Assign the appropriate code with a modifier for the surgeon's service. 12. A patient underwent carpal tunnel releases on both the left and right wrists. 13. The surgeon performed an open reduction with internal fixation for a right, fifth metatarsal fracture 14. The surgeon excised a chalation of the left lower eyelid. 15. According to CPT Assistent, October 2001. Cystourethroscopy Procedures, is it appropriate to append modifier 50, Bilateral procedure, to CPT code 52321 Cystourethroscopy, with ureteroscopy and/or pyeloscopy, diagnostic? 16. What CPT modifier guidance is provided for code 0215T if the procedure was performed bilaterally?

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Transcribed Image Text: Por items through 14, assign the correct CPT code(s) and the appropriate modifiers (CPT and HCPCS National). 7. The patient underwent a percutaneous core needle biopsy of the right breast with the use of stereotactic guidance. 62 Chapter 3 Modifiers 8. The physician performed a partial avulsion of the nail plate of the left thumb. 9. A patient was taken to the outpatient surgery suite for an excisional debridement of the skin that extended into the muscle. The patient was prepared for surgery, but the physician was called for an emergency surgery of a trauma patient and the outpatient surgery was cancelled before anesthesia was administered. Assign the code(s) to be reported by the hospital. 10. Chemodenervation of salivary glands (two glands injected) 11. The surgeon performed a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The procedure was complicated due to the fact that the patient had extensive adhesions that required over two hours to lysis. Assign the appropriate code with a modifier for the surgeon's service. 12. A patient underwent carpal tunnel releases on both the left and right wrists. 13. The surgeon performed an open reduction with internal fixation for a right, fifth metatarsal fracture 14. The surgeon excised a chalation of the left lower eyelid. 15. According to CPT Assistent, October 2001. Cystourethroscopy Procedures, is it appropriate to append modifier 50, Bilateral procedure, to CPT code 52321 Cystourethroscopy, with ureteroscopy and/or pyeloscopy, diagnostic? 16. What CPT modifier guidance is provided for code 0215T if the procedure was performed bilaterally?
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Transcribed Image Text: Por items through 14, assign the correct CPT code(s) and the appropriate modifiers (CPT and HCPCS National). 7. The patient underwent a percutaneous core needle biopsy of the right breast with the use of stereotactic guidance. 62 Chapter 3 Modifiers 8. The physician performed a partial avulsion of the nail plate of the left thumb. 9. A patient was taken to the outpatient surgery suite for an excisional debridement of the skin that extended into the muscle. The patient was prepared for surgery, but the physician was called for an emergency surgery of a trauma patient and the outpatient surgery was cancelled before anesthesia was administered. Assign the code(s) to be reported by the hospital. 10. Chemodenervation of salivary glands (two glands injected) 11. The surgeon performed a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The procedure was complicated due to the fact that the patient had extensive adhesions that required over two hours to lysis. Assign the appropriate code with a modifier for the surgeon's service. 12. A patient underwent carpal tunnel releases on both the left and right wrists. 13. The surgeon performed an open reduction with internal fixation for a right, fifth metatarsal fracture 14. The surgeon excised a chalation of the left lower eyelid. 15. According to CPT Assistent, October 2001. Cystourethroscopy Procedures, is it appropriate to append modifier 50, Bilateral procedure, to CPT code 52321 Cystourethroscopy, with ureteroscopy and/or pyeloscopy, diagnostic? 16. What CPT modifier guidance is provided for code 0215T if the procedure was performed bilaterally?