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Assess Which Modifier Enables Reporting Both These Procedures

Published on Tue Dec 12, 2023

Question: The otolaryngologist excises a lesion from the patient’s nose with an excised diameter of 2.0 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. With a pathologic diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), margins clear, the ENT performs [...]
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