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Easily Handle Multiple Placements for 01967
Published on Tue Jan 15, 2013
Question: I’m coding for a case where the patient was given two labor epidurals within 24 hours. She had the first epidural for labor from 10:21-10:46 p.m. The patient experienced pain and the physicians decided later to replace the epidural. The second one was in place from 4:25-4:50 a.m. How should we report this to show two epidural placements?
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