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Aware of Bundles Before Coding Bunionectomy and Mallet Toe Correction

Published on Tue Apr 14, 2015

Question: A patient came into the office with a “rigid mallet toe” in right foot second toe. During the examination, the physician also noticed a bunion on the first toe. The podiatrist performed the corrections with arthroplasty for the mallet toe and bunionectomy in one sitting. How should I code this encounter? Can I separately code these two procedures or are [...]
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