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Mar 3rd, 2011 - koatsj 160 

foreign body swallowed

My surgeon saw a 10 year old girl because she swallowed a quarter. My doctor went down her throat and saw the quarter in her mid esophagus and attempted to grasp it with forceps but was unsuccessful and it fell down her esophagus and into her stomach which was full with food and was unable to find it. Two days later; after x-rays confirmed the quarter still in her stomach, he went back down her throat again but found no evidence of the quarter. Would I bill 43235 for both days? Or should I bill 43247-52 for the first EGD because he had the forceps there and had every intention of grasping it before it fell down into her stomach?



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