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Otolaryngology Coding:

Take These 2 Tips, Report Lesion Removal and Different-Day Tissue Transfer Correctly

Published on Wed Jan 28, 2026

Question: One of our otolaryngologists excised a lesion from a patient’s nose with an excised diameter of 1.2 cm. They intend to do an adjacent tissue transfer (ATT) for minimal scarring but wait for the pathology report to determine if the lesion is malignant and to ensure clear margins. Assuming we get a pathologic diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) [...]
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