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Anatomic Pathology:

Focus Your Spinal Cord Specimen Coding

Published on Wed May 10, 2017

Distinguish meninges from spinal cord. If your pathologists work downstream from a neurosurgery practice, you need to know a thing or two about identifying specimens and diagnoses for various spinal cord-related tissues your practice might encounter. Some spinal cord specimen names you might see in a pathology note may be “unlisted” in the CPT® anatomic pathology exam codes 88302-88309. Coupled [...]
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