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Refresh Your Knowledge of Foreign Body Removals

Published on Thu Oct 16, 2025

Review the CMS guidelines to make sure you’re using 52000 correctly. When a patient presents for a foreign body removal procedure, meticulous attention to the case details is crucial for accurate coding. Factors like the object’s location, depth, the extraction technique, and the complexity of the closure all significantly influence the coding process. Together we’ll review the most common codes [...]
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