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    Wiki Intermediate or Complex Repair?

    Requesting guidance - is the closure in this surgery considered an intermediate repair or complex repair? Also can someone please explain the meaning of "undermining" (described in the CPT book in the guidance preceding the repair codes, for complex repairs)? OPERATIVE REPORT: PREOPERATIVE...
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    Wiki Coding repair following excision of breast lesion

    Requesting help to code the repair following excision of a breast lesion. The doctor indicates he performed local tissue transfer as well as layered closure. Can we bill for both of these two procedures and what codes would we use for the tissue transfer and layered closure? Also, can someone...
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    Wiki Advice for excision of deep forehead mass

    The doctor removed a forehead mass that went to the skull and complex multilayer closure. The codes I found for forehead mass are 21011-21014 but none of those codes involve the bone. I also looked at code 11420. The doctor is waiting for the pathology report but he believes it might be a...
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    • 11420 21014 bone complex multilayer closure deep excision forehead mass mass modifier 22 skull
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