Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
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Chart Your New Course for Special Stain Coding 2012
Published on Mon Oct 04, 2010 
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Clarify groups and units. Use the following table to look ahead to CPT® 2012 special stain coding for your lab. Be ready to use these codes on Jan. 1. "When you look at the description of many of these codes, the words are similar -- they're just moved around a little," says Peggy Slagle, CPC, billing compliance coordinator at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The changes appear to be primarily "housecleaning" to clarify proper code usage, she says. 
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