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FNA vs. Core Biopsies

Date: Mar 14, 2014

Question:

I have a radiologist who has told me whenever he does a biopsy of the thyroid it is always core; however, he never dictates "core" in his reports... he always just says "tissue". Pathology from the hospital always says FNA. So my question is, do I report code 60100 because that's how he instructed me to code, or do I go with the pathology and report code 10022?

Question ID : 5477
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