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Time Plays an Important Role in Selecting the Best Services Billing Code

From the College  |  Issue: April 2019  |  April 16, 2019

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Filed under:Billing/CodingFrom the CollegePractice Support Tagged with:Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codesevaluation and management (E/M) codes

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