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Bilateral Breast Biopsy

Date: Mar 14, 2014

Question:

In your 2014 Interventional Radiology Coding Reference, you instruct to code by lesions not by the breasts - if biopsy was performed in right and left breast (using the same guidance modality) to code using a primary code with an add on code. It's conflicting with 2014 CPT Codebook, which instructs you to use one code (the primary one) with modifier -50. Thank you for your help in advance. 

Question ID : 5487
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