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Understand What Constitutes a Foreign Body

Published on Tue Sep 15, 2020

Question: An ED physician removed a piece of popcorn kernel from a patient’s tonsils. What are the best CPT®/ICD-10 codes to use in this encounter? Maine Subscriber Answer: In this situation, 42809 (Removal of foreign body from pharynx) is the correct code to report for the removal of the foreign body (FB). An item will typically meet the criteria for [...]
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