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malignant lesions

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    Wiki 17260 Total Treatment diameter vs. lesion size? HELP

    Help! I have a dermatology provider who is always billing for malignant destruction lesions. She will document in her note something like this: The lesion was then prepped with chlorhexidine, and anesthetized with buffered 1 % lidocaine with epinephrine, followed by electrodesiccation and...
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    Wiki multiple adjacent tissue transfers

    I have a situation where the physician has removed two malignant lesions on the patient's face. He then performed two separate transpositional flaps to repair. I realize that the excisions are not seperately coded, but are the repairs coded seperately or are they added together since they are...
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