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Sacrifice Up To $97 per Lesion for 11100 Misuse

Published on Tue Jul 17, 2018

Look beyond integumentary codes. You learned in “Bungle Skin Biopsy Coding and Lose Pay” on page 57 that 11000 (Biopsy of skin, subcutaneous tissue and/or mucous membrane (including simple closure), unless otherwise listed; single lesion) isn’t the only code in town to report skin biopsies. In fact, if the surgeon takes the biopsy from a specific site listed elsewhere in [...]
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