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5 Tips Increase Your Coding Precision for Intracavitary Chemotherapy

Published on Wed Dec 04, 2013

Your guide to the correct code is the site, not the duration, of chemotherapy. When your oncologist prescribes intracavitary chemotherapy, which involves administering a chemotherapeutic agent directly into a body cavity, you’ll need to understand where the therapy was given and what were the steps in the service. Here is how to code services accurately, particularly in situations when the [...]
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