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Apr 25th, 2014 - industricon

Coding Tissue Sampling During Procedure

Are tissue samples coded separately when collected during a procedure?

Notes:
The procedure is the removal of an implant (screw) from the right hip (CPT: 20680).

In addition, necrotic bone and scar tissue of the skin were sampled and sent to pathology.



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