Urology Coding Alert

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Report 74415 Over 74420 for Treatment of Same Area

Question: One of the urologists at our facility documented that while doing a scouting film and then with radiopaque contrast, he located a distal left ureteral stone. He then did a cystoscopy and retrograde ureteropyelogram that confirmed a filling defect in the distal left ureter. He proceeded to use a ureterscope to manipulate and remove the calculi from the ureter [...]
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