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Foot Tumor:

Radical Resection, Shaved, Debrided or Excised? Depth Holds the Key

Published on Mon May 30, 2016

Understand the difference between lesion and tumor before you code. Was that a foot tumor which your podiatrist treated? Are you sure that it wasn’t a lesion? If the documentation is not so clear or you aren’t able to interpret the procedure or the diagnosis, your provider could be saying goodbye to perfectly legitimate claims and reimbursement since you haven’t [...]
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