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G0278

Date: Oct 15, 2018

Question:

Does the use of code G0278 require that permanent images be present in the record? If it does, and we do not have these images in the chart, would we then code the procedure using the appropriate CPT code from the 7xxxx series?

Question ID : 11527
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