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Pulmonary Ablation:

Bilateral 32998 Payment Starts April 1

Published on Mon Apr 08, 2013

Don’t assume Medicare pays extra for bilateral guidance, too. Cervicocerebral codes aren’t the only ones with a new bilateral indicator. Medicare also will now allow bilateral payment for unilateral code 32998 (Ablation therapy for reduction or eradication of 1 or more pulmonary tumor[s] including pleura or chest wall when involved by tumor extension, percutaneous, radiofrequency, unilateral). Medicare is changing the [...]
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