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Postop seroma status mastectomy

Date: Sep 6, 2018

Question:

Would you use code 10030 with 20500 or 49185 when the physician is draining a post-op chest wall seroma and using betadine sclerosant? The drainage catheter was left in.

Question ID : 11356
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