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Help - Don't Hinder - Your Total Hip Replacement Recording By Following This Expert Advice

Published on Thu Dec 12, 2013

Never skip the underlying cause, infections, or dislocations. If you’re overlooking the underlying cause for the replacement surgery and any infections or dislocations in the replaced hip, then you could be leaving precious dollars your physician ethically deserves on the table. Read on to gain more insight into how to identify and code these aspects of this common procedure to [...]
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