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Skip Billing Benign Excisions?

Published on Wed Jan 16, 2013

Question: I bill for a dermatology practice. Our state Medicaid doesn’t cover benign lesion excisions, but we don’t know it’s benign until the pathology report comes back. Are we supposed to not remove suspicious lesions? Or are we supposed to remove them but not get paid?

Oregon Subscriber Answer: Your first step is to have the patient [...]
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