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Read in the CAP magazine today that cms is proposing a single g code for prostate biopsies regardless of how many containers you put them in.
About time. The 12 sector biopsy of the prostate has to be one of the biggest unethical scams of all time. If this goes through and is adopted by insurance, I'll bet the house that we just go back to doing just multiple left and right biopsies. All the scheisters who claimed the 12 sector biopsy was superior for detecting cancer (oh and by the way increases the cost by six times over doing just multiple left and right biopsies) will disappear.
No one has done more harm to pathology reimbursement than urologists and their pathologists. It is nice to see cms single them out.
About time. The 12 sector biopsy of the prostate has to be one of the biggest unethical scams of all time. If this goes through and is adopted by insurance, I'll bet the house that we just go back to doing just multiple left and right biopsies. All the scheisters who claimed the 12 sector biopsy was superior for detecting cancer (oh and by the way increases the cost by six times over doing just multiple left and right biopsies) will disappear.
No one has done more harm to pathology reimbursement than urologists and their pathologists. It is nice to see cms single them out.