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Depth, Instrumentation Separate Cerumen Removal Codes

Published on Fri Nov 11, 2022

Do you know how the provider typically diagnoses impacted cerumen? When a patient reports to the ED with cerumen, one of three things is likely to happen to treat the condition. Like almost all ED presentations, there will be an evaluation and management (E/M) service. Depending on the E/M results, there could be more CPT® coding — or that could [...]
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