tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2009 Issue 1

Go Beyond Excision Codes on Lesion Repairs

Don't count margins in 11300-11313. When applying codes 11300-11313 for shaving of epidermal or dermal lesions, you must follow a different set of rules than when you report more familiar lesion excision codes 11400-11646. More fundamentally, you may not always be clear on when you should select 11300-11313 rather than the excision codes or, for that matter, a biopsy code. Here are the facts you need to identify and report shaving procedures properly.Consider Depth to Distinguish Shaving To differentiate between shaving (11300-11313) and excision (11400-11646), you should first look at the removal's depth . Technically, anytime the ED physician...

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