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Understand FNA 'Evaluation Episode'

Published on Thu Apr 13, 2017

Question: Our pathologist received three FNA specimens from three different breast lesions and two FNA specimens from a fourth breast lesion to check for specimen adequacy and diagnose, if adequate. Based on the adequacy check, one of the FNAs from the fourth lesion did not have sufficient cells. The pathologist diagnosed four FNA specimens. How should we code this? Codify Subscriber [...]
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