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Date: Jun 2, 2010

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Dr Z, First, let me start by apologizing for having so many questions. Who would think I was a certified coder. Recently we had an inservice on nephrostomy coding. With catheter placements 74475 would always be used as CPT states "introduction of catheter for drainage". Question is when would anyone use the parenthical codes with 50392 besides the (74475, 76942 or 77012) Judy

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