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General Surgery Coding Alert

Reader Question: Solve Catheter Insertion- Replacement- Removal-Mystery


- Published on Tue, Jan 16, 2018
Question: For a 72-year-old male patient, our surgeon removed a non-tunneled central venous catheter through the subclavian vein and replaced it with a Hickman line, [...]


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