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Earn For Each Repair in Shoulder

Published on Fri Apr 26, 2013

Question: Our surgeon wants to report two units of 23410 (Repair of ruptured musculotendinous cuff [e.g., rotator cuff] open; acute) for repairs done in same shoulder. There were tears of both the teres major and latissimus dorsi. Repair was done through a single incision for full thickness of tears of 90% of the tendon with a very small slip of [...]
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