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Debridement and lower extremity intervention

Date: Nov 20, 2019

Question:

There is an NCCI edit on codes 37228 and 11043. What would be the rationale for billing both together? It is not clear to me why a debridement and a lower extremity intervention would be bundled. 

Question ID : 13286
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