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Shoulder Surgery:

Keep Your Options Open on Shoulder Arthroscopies

Published on Wed Apr 04, 2018

Note surgical technique to avoid coding confusion. Patients presenting to the orthopedist for shoulder problems will often require a shoulder arthroscopy. Once you identify the procedure as an arthroscopy, however, your coding choices expand rather than contract. The lowdown: There are more than a dozen shoulder arthroscopy codes; one for diagnostic services, and the others for various surgical techniques to [...]
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