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Brush Up on Pathology Coding for Metastatic Ovarian Cancer

Published on Thu Jun 03, 2021

Don’t try to use surgeons’ lay terms on claims. We’ve all come across terms like “mass” and “lesion” when evaluating surgeons’ specimen notes. Make sure you get specific when making procedure coding choices; otherwise, you risk some major money. See the Scenario The surgeon identifies the case as a debulking procedure for a patient with recurrent ovarian cancer following a [...]
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