When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son to a pediatrician last summer for a checkup, the doctor noticed a little splinter in the child’s palm. That brief tug was transformed into a surgical billing code: Current Procedural Terminology code 10120, “incision and removal of a foreign body, subcutaneous” — at a cost of $414. “There’s more pressure …
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