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needle localization breat

Date: Apr 30, 2021

Question:

We have a case where physician performed core breast biopsy under stereotactic tomosynthesis guidance, and after couple of hours patient presents for preoperative mammographically-guided needle localizatin by the same physician for the same lesion. Can we code both 19081-LT and 19281-XU-LT for these? If the same guidance is used for the same scenario we may not code needle localization separate; however, in our case different type of guidance used. Please advise.

Question ID : 15408
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