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Read This Add-On Descriptor to Code Sentinel Node Biopsy Correctly

Published on Wed Jan 24, 2024

Question: When one of our patients is sent for a sentinel node biopsy, the patient first goes to radiology to have radioactive dye injected. They are then brought to the operating room where the physician identifies the sentinel nodes and before removing them. I have been coding 38525 only per our physician, who says that, as he did not inject the [...]
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