AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2019 Issue 3; Ask the Editor

Evacuation of Clots from Bladder Dome

A patient was returned to the operating room after passing blood clots following transurethral resection of a bladder tumor. Upon insertion of a cystoscope, the surgeon noted clots within the bladder, and adherent to the bladder wall and dome. Most of the clots were flushed out, and a layer of densely adherent clot to the bladder dome was scraped loose and removed with a resectoscope, with no active bleeding. What is the appropriate code assignment for this procedure? ...

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