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Count Lobes, Not Sites When Reporting TBNA Procedures

Published on Tue Jun 25, 2013

Question: My physician is billing for a transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) in the right paratracheal lymph node cluster, then advanced into the bronchus intermedius, rotated laterally, and biopsied the group of enlarged right hilar lymph nodes. My question is how do you know when you are supposed to bill for an additional lobe? This procedure was not performed in different [...]
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