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Spotlight Common Skin Biopsy Errors With 3 Cases

Use this coding trick to avoid costly multiple-biopsy mistakes. Using skin-biopsy codes 11102-+11107 (… biopsy of skin …) seems straightforward enough — but is it? Turns out that reporting skin biopsy cases is fraught with common blunders that could cost you money or earn you denials or fraud charges. See if you can find the slip-ups in each of the [...]
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