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Pathology/Lab Coding Alert

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Reporting Additional Work

Published on Sat Jun 01, 2002

Test your coding knowledge. Determine how you would code this situation before looking at the box below for the answer.
 Question: We received an appendix with a pre-op diagnosis of appendicitis, but the pathologist's final diagnosis was neoplastic glandular proliferation. The pathologist evaluated nine blocks on the appendix. The specimen was far more complicated than usual. Is there any way to code for the extra work involved?

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