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Translate Pathology Report Lingo to Colon Polyp Dx Code

Published on Tue Feb 09, 2021

Don’t let neoplastic diagnoses stump you. When your pathologist reports colon polyp findings to the ordering physician, do you know how to select the correct ICD-10 code from the narrative diagnosis in the pathology report? Missing appropriate ICD-10 codes could lead to payment problems for the physician and treatment problems for the patient. Drill down to the ICD-10 colon polyp [...]
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