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3 Tips Help You Differentiate Hemi-Thyroidectomies From Completion Thyroidectomies

Published on Fri Mar 11, 2022

Hint: Completion thyroidectomies usually follow a previous surgery. Most ENT coders understand how to report a total thyroidectomy (60240), since it entails the surgeon removing the entire thyroid during a single surgical encounter. However, coding thyroidectomies can get a little bit more complicated when the physician doesn’t remove the entire thyroid, and only removes one lobe, a procedure referred to [...]
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