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Bungle Skin Biopsy Coding and Lose Pay

Published on Tue Jul 17, 2018

Look for site-specific codes. If you think 11100-+11101 are the only codes that describe skin biopsy procedures, think again. In fact, CPT® provides many codes that describe skin biopsies from specific sites, and other codes that describe skin removal procedures that aren’t quite biopsies. Read on to learn the difference, and make sure you get all the pay you deserve [...]
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