Outpatient Facility Coding Alert

Reader Question: 38571 or 38572? Find out


- Published on Thu, Jan 11, 2018
Question: Which group of lymph nodes constitutes a “total pelvic lymphadenectomy” with reference to codes 38571 and 38572? For instance, if the surgeon doesn’t remove [...]


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