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Test Your Prostatectomy Knowledge With These Common Scenarios

Published on Mon Jun 11, 2018

Modifiers 51, 52, or 53 might help your cause. Prostatectomy might be a common-enough surgery for your urologist, but that doesn’t mean you report all cases the same. Procedures can range from simple to radical and be performed via laparoscopic or open approach. Refresh your knowledge of coding tactics based on three scenarios from Urology Coding Alert subscribers. Scenario 1: [...]
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