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Anatomic Pathology:

Study 4 Examples for Correct Soft Tissue Coding

Published on Thu Jun 08, 2017

Follow diagnosis-code lead. If you face a pathology report labeled “soft tissue mass,” you might have your coding work cut out for you. “Soft tissue is a catch-all phrase that doesn’t tell you very much — so you have to look deeper at the gross and microscopic sections of the pathology report to figure out the proper code,” says Brenda [...]
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