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Understand Options in This Suture Removal Scenario

Published on Thu Feb 20, 2020

Question: One of our patients was involved in an accident that required him to go to the emergency department (ED), where he received a number of stitches to close up a laceration. A week after the ED visit, the patient came to one of our providers to have the sutures removed. How should we go about billing for this? Iowa [...]
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