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Know Acne Type, Procedures, to Ace This Case Study

Published on Fri May 17, 2019

And peek into payer policies to avoid cosmetic procedure problems. For many adolescents, acne is a rite of passage. So encounters such as this one probably seem all too familiar to you. But acne encounters bring with them a number of coding problems, including matching your pediatrician’s documentation with the correct diagnosis code, and reporting just the right procedure code [...]
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