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Take 4 Steps to Master Special Stain Coding for Accurate Claims

Published on Wed Feb 09, 2022

Overlooked unit-of-service equals squandered pay. Special stains are common ancillary services you’re bound to encounter in pathology or cytopathology reports because they enhance microscopic evaluation of tissue and cellular material. That means you need to know how to correctly code these procedures. Make sure you capture all the pay your lab deserves by learning the following codes and the specialized [...]
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