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    Wiki Help with 44146 colectomy denial

    Hello all, Optum is denying 44146 that we billed for partial colectomy, anastomosis, and colostomy. Optum's denial was fairly vague and just states "a more accurate code should be used". I'm stumped on this one because going off the op report, that is the code that seems to be correct. I'm not...
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