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Renal Procedures:

3 Tips Lead the Way to Proper Laparoscopic Nephrectomy + Cyst Ablation Procedures

Published on Fri Mar 08, 2013

Scour the documentation for the cyst location.  When your urologist performs several procedures in one operative session, it can be difficult to determine how many codes to report to bring in every dollar your surgeon deserves, while also avoiding miscoding and overpayment situations. Renal surgery is a hotbed of potential coding errors because urologists often perform more than one procedure, [...]
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