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Don't Let 'Stent' Confusion Sabotage Your Endourology Claims

Published on Tue May 14, 2013

Hint: You can’t report 52332 whenever your urologist places a ‘stent.’  Stent placement is routine practice for urologists and you may even report the associated placement codes more than most other urology codes. Not only does your urologist place stents during his own procedures, but likely other surgeons call your provider into the OR occasionally for stent placements. Those clinical [...]
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