tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2009 Issue 9

READER QUESTIONS :Disregard Generic Code for Plantar Wart

Question: A patient reports to the ED with a painful right foot. The ED physician finds a pair of plantar warts, which he removes using a scalpel. I reported 17110 with 078.19 appended, and received a denial. Did I choose the wrong procedure code? Oregon Subscriber Answer: No, you chose the wrong diagnosis code. Re-submit the claim using 17110 (Destruction [e.g., laser surgery, electrosurgery, cryosurgery, chemosurgery, surgical curettement], of benign lesions other than skin tags or cutaneous vascular proliferative lesions; up to 14 lesions) for the wart removals, and 078.12 (Plantar wart) to represent the warts...

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