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Strengthen Your Craniotomy Coding Skills by Including Multiple ICD-10 Codes on This Claim

Published on Thu Aug 06, 2020

Hint: Understand when to report 62010 versus 61313. During a craniotomy, the surgeon removes a piece of the patient’s skull to access the inside of the brain for surgery. Craniotomies can be very tricky to code because of all the different components involved, but you don’t have to let this procedure trip you up. Take a look at the following [...]
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