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Proceed With Caution on This SK Claim

Published on Wed Dec 15, 2021

Question: One of our providers removed a 1.5 cm inflamed seborrheic keratosis from a patient’s arm using a 15 blade to shave the lesion at the skin surface. He described the procedure as a shave biopsy and coded it with 11302. I think he is wrong and want to code it as 17110 or 11102. Which of us is right? [...]
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