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Healthcare News: Multicenter study highlights the inadequacy of CPT codes to describe pediatric abdominal surgeries

A retrospective study recently published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery found that 59% of reviewed cases across four institutions contained discrepancies between operative dictation and CPT coding for pediatric abdominal surgeries.

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