DRAFT - Medical Coding Software

NATIONAL CORRECT CODING POLICY MANUAL ... if a patient has undergone a thoracotomy and a necrotizing pneumonia with empyema develops, it may be necessary to perform a lobectomy through the previous incision. The reason for the surgery is to perform the lobectomy; therefore the lobectomy code should be reported. Since the drainage of the empyema ... ................
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