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Always Choose the Appropriate Appendectomy Code

Published on Wed Sep 23, 2009

This flowchart makes capturing allowed 44960s a snap. To make your appendectomy coding even easier, let this easy-to-follow tool, reviewed by Marcella Bucknam, CPC, CCS-P, CPC-H, CCS, CPC-P, COBGC, CCC, manager of compliance education for the University of Washington Physicians (UWP) Compliance Program, lead you to the correct appendectomy coding.
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