Reader Question: Verify Details Before Coding Transurethral Unroofing of Prostatic Abscess

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Reader Question:
Verify Details Before Coding Transurethral Unroofing of Prostatic Abscess

Published on Wed Jan 24, 2018

Question: The patient was diagnosed with a prostate abscess. What CPT® code(s) should be reported for a "transurethral unroofing of prostate abscess/partial TURP"? Oklahoma Subscriber [...]

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