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Use These Tips to Decipher Diagnostic, Therapeutic Spinal Punctures

Published on Thu Oct 30, 2025

Remember to code differently for puncture with chemo. When a patient reports to the provider for a spinal puncture, there are any number of reasons that could have brought them there: it could be a recent injury, chronic pain, a disease — just about anything that causes spinal pain could be the impetus. Your job is identifying the type of [...]
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