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Multiple Lesion Excisions. Do you add them together?
If I am excising multiple basal cell carcinomas on a patient’s chest, do I add the sizes and margins together and report one code since they are in the same anatomic group of CPT codes?
Repairs with Mohs Surgery
I know that simple repairs are included with lesion excisions, but what about Mohs surgery?
Simple Laceration Repair on Skin Right Upper Eyelid
My physician did a simple laceration repair on the skin right upper eyelid. What procedure code should I report? My physician wants to use 67930.
Paramedian Forehead Flap on Previous Mohs Surgery
My doctor did a division and inset of a paramedian forehead flap on a patient that had Mohs surgery on their nose. Do I code 15620 since the flap was brought from the forehead, or 15630…
Report actinic keratosis and seborrheic keratosis with 17000-17004 codes?
If a patient presents to the office with both AKs and SKs. The doctor destroys 11 AKs and 5 SKs. Are these all reported with 17000-17004 codes?
Advancement Flap
My physician excised a malignant skin lesion from the left cheek measuring 2.0 cm. The defect was repaired with a rotational advancement flap with total primary and secondary defect
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