tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2009 Issue 3

Know Size, Area of Lesion Before Choosing Code

CPT breaks codes into 6 size categories. There are three categories for lesion removal coding, confirms Yvonne Mayer, CPC, senior coding analyst atBill Dunbar and Associates inIndianapolis. - Report 11400-11446 (Excision, benign lesion including margins - ) for "excision of benign lesions of various sizes and anatomical locations," reports Mayer. - Report 11450-11471 (Excision of skin and subcutaneous tissue for hidradenitis -) for excision of skin and subcutaneous tissue prompted by hidradenitis -- an inflammation of a sweat gland that can be a chronic supportive disease and may produce scarring of the skin and subcutaneous tissues, Mayer says...

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