Question: Eight days after an initial wart freezing, the patient returns, and the physician freezes another wart. Is the second procedure bundled into the first, or can we report it with a modifier? Answer: You may be able to report the second occurren...
Measuring total removal lengths is a no-no … here’s why.
Your ED physician removes a pair of benign lesions from the patient’s left thigh; you add the repair lengths and code based on those numbers. You’ve coded correctly … right?…
Watch out: Avoid this unlisted code. Question: Is removal of a keloid scar considered an unlisted procedure? What is the right code? Answer: Use 17110 (Destruction [e.g., laser surgery, electrosurgery, cryosurgery, chemosurgery, surgical curettement], of benign lesions other than skin tags or cutaneous vascular lesions; up to 14 lesions) with diagnosis 701.4 (Keloid scar). 17110 and 7111 [...] Related articles: