When abdominal dog ears are excised after breast reconstruction surgery, is it appropriate to report

When abdominal dog ears are excised after breast reconstruction surgery, is it appropriate to report the procedure with tissue rearrangement codes 14000 and 14001 when the dog ears have been excised and flaps were developed and rotated to close the wound? Or, is it more appropriate to use the excision of benign lesions codes from the 11400-11406 code series and the appropriate repair codes?

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CPT Knowledgebase - Mar 26, 2014