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Toe the Coding Line With Foot Tendon Repair/Tenolysis

Published on Fri Jan 06, 2023

Journey to this surgery will likely begin with E/M, imaging. When a patient reports to the orthopedist complaining of foot pain, the surgeon could end up performing a foot tendon repair or tenolysis to remedy the condition. As there are different code sets for both procedures, coders need to know how the characteristics of both, so they don’t end up [...]
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