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Properly Deciphering Operative Reports Is Key to Correct Payment

Published on Mon Nov 16, 2015

Don’t forget to add the proper modifiers. Your urologist’s operative reports can be long and full of complex information and confusing terminology. If you’re coding from the simple summary at the top of the note, instead of reviewing the full report, you might be missing crucial — and billable — pieces of the surgical puzzle. Reviewing tricky sample reports can [...]
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