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Carefully Document Stages for Modified Mohs

Published on Mon Jan 19, 2015

Question: Please explain if we should use Mohs codes for the following case, or if not, how we should code the case. The surgeon submits the following tissue to our pathologist for examination from a Mohs-type procedure: First stage: Initial skin tumor tissue that the surgeon submits as four separate specimens, A, B, C, and D. The pathologist performs frozen section [...]
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