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Wiki Excsion of paratracheal lymphnode

Thread starter lisagarza29@yahoo.com
Start date Aug 14, 2015

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Aug 14, 2015

Doctor performed an excisional paratracheal biopsy at the same time as a parathyroidectomy. Can we code for both 60500 and 38510 if no sep. incision was made? Or would the excision of the lymphnode be bundled into 60500 since it was done through the same incision?

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