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Report Each Step for Bone Marrow

Published on Sun Dec 01, 2002

Test your coding knowledge. Determine how you would code this situation before looking at the box below for the answer.

Question: For processing bone marrow specimens, which services are separately billable? For example, please explain how to code the following scenario: Bone marrow aspirate and needle biopsy collected from the same site Decalcification of biopsy Wrights stain of aspirate Reticulum stain of biopsy Myeloperoxidase stain of aspirate. Texas Subscriber  
     
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