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Code This Fetal Demise Scenario

Published on Wed Dec 08, 2021

Question: I need to ask for assistance or advice on a charge that an ob doctor has dropped. The op report states, REPEAT LOW TRANSVERSE CESAREAN SECTION, BILATERAL SALPINGECTOMY, RIGHT OVARIAN CYSTECTOMY. The patient was 36 weeks and had fetal demise. The charges that the physician is dropping are: -59618 PR ROUT OB CARE,C-SEC,PREV C-SEC linked to O36.4XX0 (Maternal care [...]
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