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Surgical Pathology:

Know When to 'Unbundle' Thyroidectomy

Published on Fri Jun 06, 2014

Don’t lose $71 that your pathologist deserves. Here’s something that doesn’t happen every day — but maybe it happens often enough that you could capture additional, legitimate pay for your pathology practice if you knew how to handle it: Case: Pathologist receives tissue in a single container identified by the surgeon as “thyroidectomy.” During processing, the pathologist identifies a parathyroid [...]
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