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Pay Attention to This With Lumpectomy Margins

Published on Tue Mar 12, 2013

Question: The pathologist examines a specimen that the surgeon labels “breast lumpectomy.” Additionally, the surgeon sends two more containers, each with a small fragment of breast tissue, one submitted as “medial margin,” and the other as “deep margin,” which our pathologist examines. Should we bill this as 88307 and 88305 x 2?
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