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88304-88309: Sort Out Small Intestine Specimens To Get the Pay You Deserve

Published on Wed Aug 07, 2013

Don’t let the terminology confuse you. Duodenum, polyp, resection for tumor, diverticulum, biopsy … that’s just a few of the words you might see in a pathology report for a small intestine specimen. And those words could lead you to surgical pathology codes 88304, 88305, 88307, or 88309 (Level III, IV, V, or VI - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic [...]
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