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Improve Your I&D Coding With These 4 Important Insights

Know your procedures to make smart coding choices. For a small group of 10 related codes, the integumentary incision and drainage (I&D) codes can create quite a surprising number of issues. So, we thought it would be useful to shed some light on these I&D procedures, especially on how they differ from the similar excision codes. Here are four big [...]
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