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4 Rules Will Help You Navigate This Tricky FNA/PNB Coding Case

Published on Wed Jun 09, 2021

Find out whether you can report these procedures together. Your pathologist’s exam of cases involving fine needle aspiration (FNA) and/or percutaneous needle biopsy (PNB) can produce a coder’s nightmare of questions about specimen type, bundled services, and more. Let’s look at one specific pancreas case to elucidate four rules that you can apply to other cases to make sure you [...]
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