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Stick Suture Removal Coding With This Advice

Published on Thu Sep 05, 2019

Remember; these modifiers could make a mess of your claim. When it comes to suture removal, there are a number of different ways you should — and should not — code the removals. Here are three tried-and-tested ways you can report suture removals, no matter whether your orthopedist or another provider performs a repair that requires the removal. To make this [...]
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