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4 Handy Tips Guide Your Urinary Diversion Coding Choices

Hint: 51595 includes a pelvic lymphadenectomy. In some cases, your urologist may perform a urinary diversion to make a new way for urine to leave the patient’s body. They will usually perform a urinary diversion when the normal flow of urine is blocked, or the bladder can no longer store urine. Most commonly, urologists will perform a urinary diversion after [...]
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