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Case Study:

Do This When Diagnostic Colonoscopy Turns to Treatment

Published on Tue Jun 17, 2014

Look for relation to splenic flexure. You read about screening colonoscopies last month in “Payer, Risk, and Findings Drive Colonoscopy Code Choices” (General Surgery Coding Alert Vol. 16, No. 6), but do you know how to handle diagnostic colonoscopy cases? Follow our experts’ advice for this one simple case, and you’ll be ready to make sure you report the proper [...]
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