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HCPCS Deleted Code for Clinician did not document an order was given to discontinue prophylactic antibiotics within 48 hours of surgical end time G8209

Deleted code, effective Jan. 1, 2011

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Clinician did not document an order was given to discontinue prophylactic antibiotics within 48 hours of surgical end time

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