CPT Knowledgebase - Dec 2, 2022

When the physician does an excision of a lesion and the surgeon fails to document the size measurements in the operative note, is it appropriate to use the measurements specified in the pathology report? Could we assign the lowest level skin excision code based on the anatomical area involved?

To view the Official AMA answer and 1000s more like this:

CPT® Knowledge Base is a compendium of real life coding questions asked by the coding community and answered by CPT® coding experts.

Over 2900 questions and authoritative answers from the CPT® professionals at the AMA. Get specific answers to challenging coding questions, and search the knowledge base of others' real world questions.

Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • AMA's CPT® Advanced Coding Pack

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.