You Be the Coder: Normal Tissue Earns Ordering Diagnosis
Question: The pathologist examined a colon biopsy from a patient having a diagnostic colonoscopy due to prior polyp findings. The diagnosis for the specimen was "mild epithelial hyperplasia, colon." How should we code the case?Montana SubscriberAnswer: The correct procedure code is 88305 (Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination, colon, biopsy). Because the pathologist's findings of "mild epithelial [...]
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