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Skin Case:

Select Procedure Code Once You Pinpoint Diagnosis

Published on Fri Oct 04, 2013

Watch out for DSAP ICD-9 trap. Your pathologist receives two skin specimens from the same patient on the same day — a lesion from the patient’s right ankle and one from the patient’s neck. That sounds like a case with simple enough coding, but read on to see what trials await you as you zero in on the proper diagnosis [...]
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