CPT Knowledgebase - Apr 6, 2023

Surgical pathology examination of lipoma would be reported with code 88304. However, would an angiolipoma be coded as a biopsy of a different disease (often painful clinically) with code 88305 or as a subset of lipoma and therefore with 88304?

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