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Apply Top 3 Winning Strategies for Vulvar Lesion Coding

Published on Mon Aug 19, 2013

Key: Look for lesion type, size along with margins excised, and any closure work. When reporting vulvar lesions, you need to be very careful to determine whether your provider performed a vulvectomy or vulvar lesion excision. Not doing so could cost you deserved income. RVU difference: All vulvectomies (simple, partial, and radical) have more RVUs than lesion excisions because vulvectomies [...]
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