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Surgery Center Coding Guidance: Lesion and Tumor Coding

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Automated Tumor International Classification of Diseases Coding of Real-World Pathology Reports Using Self-Hosted Large Language Models

We analyzed 21,364 pathology reports from 10,823 patients documented between 2013 and 2025 at a large German hospital. Five LLMs were evaluated: Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama (8B ...
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Current Procedural Terminology (CPT): How It Works and What It Means

Current Procedural Terminology, perhaps better known by its abbreviation “CPT,” is the coding system the medical field uses to document healthcare services during a procedure. This system is extensive ...
Healio

Careful distinction can prevent surgical coding errors

In Part 1 of the series, the principle causes of faulty surgical coding were reviewed, including the use of unlisted Current Procedural Terminology codes and the differentiation between coding for ...