When a physician (radiologist) performs both the surgical component and the supervision and interpretation component of a procedure, how would the coder appropriately assign CPT codes to communicate this to a third-party payer?
A) assign one code from the Radiology section with modifier 26
B) assign one code from the Surgery section with modifier 26
C) assign one code from the Surgery section and one code from the Radiology section
D) assign one code from the Radiology section with modifier TC
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