A patient had an implantable vascular access device with subcutaneous port placed seven weeks ago for chemotherapy. This is administered each week in the ambulatory surgery department of the hospital. The full cycle is now complete and the vascular access device is no longer needed. Today, the physician surgically removed the centrally tunneled central venous catheter and subcutaneous port. No services for the carcinoma of the transverse colon are provided. The cancer has not been resected yet because the chemotherapy was utilized in an attempt to shrink the tumor before surgery was initiated. The correct codes for reporting by the physician will be: ICD-10-CM code, first-sequenced: ICD-10-CM code, secondary: CPT:
[Expert Solution]: A patient had an implantable vascular…
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