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Ensure GI Surgery Pay With These Diagnosis Tips

Published on Wed Apr 11, 2018

When should symptoms be reported? You know that medical necessity drives payment for your GI procedures surgeries, but are you always able to prove that your procedures are necessary? Because the surgeon or the referring clinician may describe symptoms that are the indication for surgery, you'll need to be able to "decode" any narrative diagnoses you receive and report the [...]
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