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CPT® Coding:

Listen To Your Payer Before Reporting Bilateral Cerumen Removal

Published on Wed Feb 26, 2014

Make sure you are reading the rules for facility rather than office reporting When your ED doc treats a patient with severe ear pain due to impacted wax, keep in mind that .CPT® 2014 includes a slight but significant change in the code descriptor for 69210 (Removal of impacted cerumen requiring instrumentation, unilateral). Previously the code read, “Removal impacted cerumen [...]
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