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Wiki Coding for Hymenal Tear Removal

Thread starter pnelson0824
Start date Feb 15, 2016
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Feb 15, 2016

I have a patient who presented to the office with a hymenal tear protruding through the vagina.
Our physician injected lidocaine and removed the protrusion with a scalpel.
Is it appropriate to code this procedure as 56442? With hymenal tear being the diagnosis?

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