Someone filing a claim for an appendectomy cannot return the next year with another appendectomy.

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George Vanderbilt died just two years later, at age 51, of complications from an appendectomy.

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Also, Max Pacioretty skated a full practice just six days after having an emergency appendectomy.

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Heyward will likely need another couple of weeks to recover from an appendectomy.

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Not long after, a woman patient underwent an appendectomy at the hospital.

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An appendectomy should be consistently performed and priced, but how do we consistently perform and price considering the ambiguity inherent in diagnosis itself?

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Reed Johnson, playing right field for Atlanta in the opener because Jason Heyward underwent an appendectomy Monday night, went 4 for 4 with three doubles.

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But patients paying twenty percent co-pays on hospital services are going to be hit hard by the inability of their insurance companies to negotiate lower appendectomy fees.

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These days, surgeons will typically do a laparoscopic appendectomy.

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In fact, with Touchsurgery, patients can visualize a number of computer simulated operations including removal of the gallbladder (cholycystectomy), removal of the appendix, (appendectomy), as well as common hip and shoulder surgeries.

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