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Stay Current With Partial, Total Hip Replacement Coding Rules

Published on Wed Feb 06, 2019

Use this code when the procedure includes femoral stem, neck only. High-dollar surgeries such as hip replacements present a high-stakes challenge for coders when it’s time to file the claim. If you undercode for these services, your practice could get less than deserved for the procedure; swing the other way and overcode, and your hip replacement claim will likely be [...]
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