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Classify Anus Tag or Hemorrhoid

Published on Wed Mar 17, 2021

Question: The patient presented for a colonoscopy and also mentioned a troublesome external hemorrhoid. The surgeon performed the colonoscopy and external hemorrhoidectomy of an external hemorrhoid tag. Because there’s an NCCI edit for 45378 and 46220, does that mean I can bill only the colonoscopy? Maryland Subscriber Answer: The language in the question may be the source of the coding [...]
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