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General Surgery Coding Alert

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Look to Status to Determine POS

Published on Tue Apr 29, 2025

Question: One of our providers is a surgeon who sometimes gets called to the hospital or emergency department (ED) to see patients. For example, the provider may get called to the ED to see a patient with rectal pain who is diagnosed with a perirectal abscess. The surgeon then drained the abscess at the patient’s bedside in the ED. I [...]
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