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Oral Surgery:

Tongue Site Leads Excision, Diagnosis Code Choices

Published on Fri Jun 17, 2016

Closure documentation could earn $162 pay. When your general surgeon performs a tongue lesion excision or biopsy to aid in the diagnosis of lingual cancers such as a squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue, you’ll need to be armed with some anatomical facts and code know-how to get the pay your surgeon deserves. Not only that, choosing the right [...]
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