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Strengthen Basics And Assess Your Understanding for Skull Base Coding

Published on Tue Feb 02, 2016

You need these three guides: Fossa, dura, and resected structures. When reporting skull base procedures, you need to adopt the following three steps to make your way to the right code: Confirm the fossa Ascertain intradural or extradural work List the structures mobilized Why skull base surgeries? Surgeons perform skull- base surgery to remove/treat a lesion - such as cancerous [...]
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