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tci Part B Insider - 2011 Issue 37
Reader Question: Know When to Add Laceration Repair Lengths
Question: A patient with a 1.5-cm laceration on his eyebrow presented to our practice. Our physician performed an intermediate repair. The patient also had a 3.6-cm forehead laceration that required a simple repair. Should we add these two wound lengths together and then code the intermediate repair, or does each get its own code?
Answer: In this instance, you should report code 12051 (Repair, intermediate, wounds of face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips and/or mucous membranes; 2.5 cm or less) for the eyebrow repair and 12013 (Simple repair of superficial wounds of face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips...
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