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Earn $139 With Accurate Lesion Measure

Published on Wed Nov 18, 2015

Question: One of our surgeons reports malignant lesion excision by stating the dimension of the excised tissue, not the lesion itself. For instance, the surgeon documented an “excised diameter” of 11 cm by 3.1 cm for a melanoma on the patient’s left leg. How should we code this? Codify Subscriber Answer: Without talking to the surgeon, the best code you can choose [...]
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