Question

A 3 year-old girl is playing with a marble and sticks it in her nose. Her mother is unable to dislodge the marble so she takes her to the provider's office. The provider removes the marble with hemostats. What cpt® and icd-10-cm codes are reported?

Answer 1

The codes reported are 30300, 932, E912.

Step-by-step explanation:

CPT® and ICD-10-CM are medical code sets that code for diseases, conditions, applications, surgeries, examinations, vaccines, and any other medical and hospital procedure. The purpose of these codes is to streamline patient care, diagnosis and treatment, and these codes allow any healthcare professional to understand what the patient is going through, what treatments the patient has already done and what should be done from now on.

In the case shown in the question above, the codes reported are: 30300, 932, E912.

Answer 2

The given case says that a girl was playing with marbles. The marble got stuck in her nose. In this case, the marble is a foreign body, which needs to be removed. The doctor performs the removal of foreign particle from her nose by surgical processes, and he uses hemostats.

The CPT code 30300 is used when a doctor removes the foreign body part from the nose.

The Icd-10-cm code for foreign body in nostril is T17.1, and T17.1XXA is a billable/specific code.