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The nominator further asserted that this code family is potentially misvalued because surgical practice for these procedures has evolved since 1995
Tobacco control in tobacco-producing countries
Codes for which there is a significant difference in payment for the same service between different sites of service
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Because an oral or dental infection can present substantial risk to the success of dialysis treatment for ESRD, we believe dental services furnished to identify, diagnose, and treat oral or dental infections prior to or contemporaneously with dialysis services in the treatment of ESRD are not in connection with the care, treatment, filling, removal, or replacement of teeth or structures directly supporting teeth, but instead are inextricably linked to, and substantially related and integral to the clinical success of, these other covered medical services