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Bilateral Lung Transplant with co-surgeons
Date: Nov 4, 2022
Question:
Our doctors are both billing for a bilateral lung transplant (32854-62), but the operative notes state that each did one lung, right and left. The specialties are the same. Is this sufficient to establish the medical necessity of a co-surgeon?
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