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Confront Esophageal Manometry Coding Challenges Head-On With This Refresher

Published on Fri Nov 20, 2015

Don’t use codes 0240T and 0241T for CY 2016. As a gastroenterology practice, you may be encountering esophageal manometry cases more frequently as physicians have started using it as a standard procedure prior to surgery for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). With an estimated 19 million Americans suffering from GERD and a public education program being launched by the American College [...]
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