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Know How Often to File 52601

Published on Thu Aug 11, 2016

Question: One of my doctors completed a TURP for a patient with metastatic cancer who’d had a previous TURP two years ago. The doctor seems to think that there might an exception to the rule in terms of coding, since the second TURP was done because of the regrowth of prostate cancer with extension of the tumor up into the trigone. [...]
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