Vascular 3 – Part 3 – Knowledge Check

Examples of when to send a PCS query include: 

• The documentation is conflicting, imprecise, incomplete, illegible, ambiguous, invalid, or inconsistent
• The documentation describes a procedure that is inconsistent with clinical tests resulting from the procedure, such as a pathology or cytology report.
• The documentation does not contain information to assign the appropriate root operation (based on the objective of the procedure), body part, approach, device, or other PCS qualifier
• The documentation lacks the necessary laterality 

 Can you give one example of when not to send a PCS query?