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Published on Tue Jul 12, 2022

Question: My ob-gyn had a woman with 15-16 week fetal demise in the left nondominant uterine horn (bicornuate uterus). The procedures are: Explo laparotomy, left uterine horn resection w/removal of fetal demise. She failed induction, so the surgery was performed. I’ve looked at every possible code, but nothing fits except possibly 58540, but that’s not quite it either. Plus, with removal [...]
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