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Keep Wheels Turning on Rotator Cuff Fixes

Published on Wed Aug 05, 2020

Provider will use MRI/E/M combo to diagnose. Coding a series of encounters in which the physician diagnoses and repairs a torn rotator cuff will take some acumen, as the surgery is almost always preceded by other services. If you cannot identify all of the codeable services and apply the proper modifiers to the claims, you’ll be selling your practice short [...]
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