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Test Yourself With These Foot Repair Scenarios

Published on Tue Mar 07, 2023

Tenolysis/tendon surgeries can test your coding ability. When orthopedic surgeons perform tendon surgery on a patient’s feet, you’ll often find yourself choosing a code from the tendon repair/tenolysis set. Which code you’ll choose is often vexing, however. There are a lot of variables — and codes — that are in play when a patient needs foot tendon repair/tenolysis. The challenge: [...]
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