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lalalisa

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Patient came to Plastic surgeon after dermatologist did a punch biopsy for a lesion that came back suspiscious for squamous cell ca. Plastic surgeon toook pt to O.R and removed the lesion and did a skin graft. The doc coded it as 11604,15100 with 173.42 fro dx.

The path came back and showed it to be seborrheic keratosis with no evidence of malignancy. So I was changing the codes to 11404,15100 with 702.19.

Seems like a silly question, but isnt my way the correct way to code it?

thank you!
 
Yes you are correct the provider needs to be informed that an uncertain dx such as "suspicious" cannot be coded by provider or outpatient facility.
 
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