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Answer These 4 Questions, Enhance Your Cerumen Removal Coding

Published on Wed Mar 20, 2019

Don’t let familiarity with this common procedure breed contempt. Cerumen removal is one of the most common procedures performed in pediatric medicine. If you’re a new coder, that means you’ll quickly need to develop strategies to code the procedure whenever your provider removes earwax from a young patient’s ear. And if you have plenty of experience dealing with the service, [...]
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