alicia: mutually exclusive procedures -- thisis so much fun. q: which one of these procedures is not considereda mutually exclusive procedure? we're going to talk about, i'm going to show you theseand then we're going to go into the description. a bilateral dm foot exam on a bka (below kneeamputation), mammogram on male patient, psa (for prostate cancer) on mrs. jones, pregnancytest on post-hysterectomy patient.
icd 9 code for prostate cancer, a: i like to say mutually exclusive proceduresare codes that just don't make sense together. let's give this example: a patient is in amotorcycle accident and is rushed to the or with a compound fracture (mostly means thatthere's lots of pieces, it's not quite crushed but there's lots of pieces there) of the leftfemur. the surgeon attempts to repair the
fracture with pin to stabilize it. however,it is determined that the femur has been crushed and an amputation is performed. you wouldnot bill for the attempt to repair the fracture as well as the amputation, because these codesdon't make sense together. if in another scenario, if the patient istreated and the surgeon is able to pin that fracture together and pretty much saves theleg, but two weeks later, they come back and there's trouble with the pedal pulses andmaybe infection and the pins is just not setting, it's not working. then he goes in and theyhave to amputate after all; then you can code for the two separate procedures because itwasn't there on the same day. it was done separately.
poll: what do you think was the correct answerfor which one of these just do not go together? which one of these procedures is not considereda mutually exclusive procedure? a. bilateral dm foot exam on a bka (belowknee amputation) b. mammogram on male patient c. psa (for prostate cancer) on mrs. jones d. pregnancy test on post-hysterectomy patient. boyd: if everybody can put their answer inthe chat to give us a sense of what you think the answer is. alicia: we want something that just doesn'tgo together, and the fact is b is the answer.
because men can get breast cancer and theydo, do mammograms on men. but, you're not going to do a psa on a woman because she doesn'thave a prostate. you're not going to do a bilateral foot exam on a person that's hadtheir below knee amputated, and you're not going to do a pregnancy test on a woman whodoesn't have a uterus. so, there's the answer. mutually exclusive procedures mean when theydon't go together, you wouldn't put these two codes together because it just doesn'tmake any sense. so, now you can picture that woman in the mirror when you think about it.that's what mutually exclusive procedures mean, they just don't go together.
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