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Solve Your Spinal Reporting Questions By Specifying Each Surgical Step

Published on Mon Jun 20, 2016

You need to avoid duplicates in inclusive services. Here’s why. Spinal coding may pose a challenge as your surgeon often does more procedures than one, requiring you to proceed one step at a time to capture all services and accurately assign the codes. Here is a stepwise approach for spinal procedures and let the following example guide you to more [...]
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