CPT Knowledgebase - Jun 22, 2010

Code 10061, Incision and drainage of abscess (eg, carbuncle, suppurative hidradenitis, cutaneous or subcutaneous abscess, cyst, furuncle, or paronychia); complicated or multiple, is used to report complicated OR multiple I&D of abscess. However, the patient has nine COMPLICATED abscesses, and the physician performs I&D on all complicated AND multiple abscesses. Please advise if code 10061 should be reported nine times or should it be reported once for all nine COMPLICATED abscesses.

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