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Pick Different Codes for Acne, Pilonidal Cyst Procedures

Published on Tue Mar 21, 2017

Here’s why these services aren’t typical I&Ds. A patient reporting to the pediatrician for treatment of a cyst will typically require services represented by the traditional incision and drainage (I&D) procedures. There are times, however, when your provider might perform an I&D-type procedure that you won’t code with 10060 (Incision and drainage of abscess [e.g., carbuncle, suppurative hidradenitis, cutaneous or [...]
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