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Chart Your New Course for Special Stain Coding 2012

Published on Tue Nov 08, 2011

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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