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Published on Thu Oct 17, 2019

Question: Our surgeon performed percutaneous placement of metallic pellets using stereotactic guidance in a right upper outer quadrant breast lesion and a right axillary lymph node lesion. How should we report the service? Tennessee Subscriber Answer: Optimum coding for these procedures would be 19283 (Placement of breast localization device(s) (eg, clip, metallic pellet, wire/needle, radioactive seeds), percutaneous; first lesion, including [...]
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