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701.1 Is Your Best Bet for Porokeratotic Lesions

Published on Mon Jun 18, 2012

CPT 11055, 11420, or 17000? Your coding will depend on the method used. There may be no specific ICD-9 code for porokeratotic lesions, and there may not be a standard treatment for it -- and podiatrists may not even be able to agree on what they're called -- but that doesn't mean that there are no coding solutions for these services. This condition is a special type of callus with a deeply imbedded nucleated core that a podiatrist cannot easily dig out. It can also be quite painful for the patient. Watch for: You may come across a variety of different terms to name the same condition. "Some may confuse them with warts or with what podiatrists call 'seed corns,' and other podiatrists will refer to them as 'IPKs' (intractable plantar keratosis), but they're not really the same thing," says Arnold Beresh, DPM, CPC, of Peninsula Foot and Ankle Specialists PLC [...]
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