BC Advantage - 2019 Issue 6

Excision of Lipomas

Several of the previous "Spotlight on CPT" presentations revolved around lesion excision and repair, so in keeping with that theme, this discussion will address removal of lipomas. A lipoma is a fatty tumor. You will recall the suffix - oma means tumor.  This does not always signify a cancerous growth as evidenced here since lipomas are just a tumor of fatty tissue.  Lipomas can be superficial, subfascial, or submuscular, and properly coding the removal of a lipoma depends on the specific depth.  Let us examine the layers of skin and subcutaneous tissue to get a...

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