tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2000 Issue 1

Corrections

In the November issue of General Surgery Coding Alert on p. 39, we incorrectly stated that starred procedure 10060 (incision and drainage of abscess [e.g., carbuncle, suppurative hidradenitis, cutaneous or subcutaneous abscess, cyst, furuncle or paronychia]; simple or single) had 0 global days. In fact, 10060 has a 10-day global period.And in an article on sentinel node biopsy in the December issue on p. 42, we attributed a number of statements incorrectly to Sandra Schultz, MD, a general surgeon in Gastonia, N.C. Schultz was not the source of our statement that axillary lymph node dissection could...

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