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Focus FNA Specimen Coding

Published on Mon Jul 11, 2022

Question: Our lab has a physician client who performs a lot of FNA procedures. Sometimes our lab receives prepared slides for interpretation by our pathologist, and sometimes we receive fluid identified as an FNA specimen, and we prepare the slides before our pathologist interprets them. How do we code the two different scenarios? Virginia Subscriber Answer: When you receive a [...]
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