CPT^® 17004, Under Destruction Procedures on Benign or Premalignant Lesions of the Integumentary System

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 17004 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Destruction Procedures on Benign or Premalignant Lesions of the Integumentary System.

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The provider destroys 15 or more premalignant lesions using techniques such as chemosurgery, cryosurgery, electrosurgery, or others.

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Procedure Documentation Guidelines

[QUOTE="amyjph, post: 509226, member: 172045"] That's frustrating. What do the denials cite as the exact reason? The CPT description in the book is the credible source in my opinion where the number h... [ Read More ]

Procedure Documentation Guidelines

[QUOTE="sinman0531, post: 509195, member: 605607"] Yes! We include number of lesions for ILTAC injections, and its really such a small amount of additional work the pushback doesn't make sense at all.... [ Read More ]

Coding Skin Tags

We are a PCP office and have patient's that have spots removed using cryosurgery/liquid nitrogen. If they are in for an office visit we code the office visit but what do we use coding wise for the rem... [ Read More ]

Add ons denying as bundled

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Two E/M on the same DOS

[QUOTE="ltl226, post: 492622, member: 512118"] Two different providers, same practice (dermatology), both of the providers billed an E/M with different diagnosis codes. This is the first time I have ... [ Read More ]

Two E/M on the same DOS

Two different providers, same practice (dermatology), both of the providers billed an E/M with different diagnosis codes. This is the first time I have run into this. I thought we could not bill two... [ Read More ]

Add ons denying as bundled

for the example with 17004, 17110, 11102 and 11103 the 17110, 11102 get modifer 59 not the 17004... [ Read More ]

Add ons denying as bundled

We’ve recently been getting a lot of add on codes denied from MA and Medicare plans when they are billed with 17110. Examples: 99203-25: pays 17110: pays 17000-XS: pays 17003 x12: denied as unbundl... [ Read More ]

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