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Perfect Your I&D Reporting Skills With This Quiz

Published on Thu Dec 01, 2016

Garner ethical pay for repeat procedures within global period. When your clinician performs an incision and drainage (I&D) of an abscess, you must know whether to report a simple code or a complicated code. You should also know how to report the procedure when your clinician drains more than one abscess. Read the following three scenarios and see if you [...]
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