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Master Melanoma Excision Reports With 3 Tips

Published on Tue Aug 16, 2016

Watch for separate repair charge. If your general surgeons treat some of the more than 76,000 new melanoma cases expected in 2016, you need to hone your coding skills to ensure clean claims. Because melanoma is a malignant skin cancer that often leads to large, complicated excisions, you’ll face plenty of coding pitfalls that you need to avoid. Let our [...]
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