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CPT® 2022:

Here’s Why You Can’t Miss This Foreign-Body Guideline Change

Published on Thu Dec 16, 2021

See how this affects coding for breast implant removal. Who knew a little paragraph defining “foreign body” and “implant” could have such a big impact on coding? That’s one little paragraph in the CPT® Surgery section guidelines you can’t afford to ignore when reporting your surgeons’ breast implant removal procedures in 2022. Let our experts guide you through this change [...]
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