CPT Knowledgebase - Aug 3, 2023

A patient presents with a contiguous laceration that extends from the left forehead down and across the left eyelid after an accident. The surgeon debrides the wound edges and performs an intermediate repair. The combined length of the repaired defect is 6 cm, with 4.6 cm on the forehead and 1.4 cm on the eyelid. How would this contiguous laceration repair, which runs over multiple anatomic locations, be reported?

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