Not a surgeon but as a US doctor that's essentially my understanding as well. All medical encounters would have a CPT code which is assigned for the actual service rendered or procedure performed as well as an ICD-10 diagnostic code which labels the medical diagnosis. I assume the procedure code would be the same for both of these, so for the type large volume data analysis done for these studies I don't think there would be a way of distinguishing between procedures if the diagnostic code is purposely entered incorrectly (short of actually digging into the written medical record case by case).
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Not a surgeon but as a US doctor that's essentially my understanding as well. All medical encounters would have a CPT code which is assigned for the actual service rendered or procedure performed as well as an ICD-10 diagnostic code which labels the medical diagnosis. I assume the procedure code would be the same for both of these, so for the type large volume data analysis done for these studies I don't think there would be a way of distinguishing between procedures if the diagnostic code is purposely entered incorrectly (short of actually digging into the written medical record case by case).
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