• If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ & read the forum rules. To view all forums, post or create a new thread, you must be an AAPC Member. If you are a member and have already registered for member area and forum access, you can log in by clicking here. If you've forgotten the password it can be reset on our sign in section by entering your registered Email Address or Username here. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below..

Wiki Corn treated by electrodessication

Create Wiki
T

Tillermeg10@gmail.com

Guest
Messages
4
Best answers
0
If a provider treated corns (L84) by electrodessication can this be billed as 11055 or is 17110 appropriate?
 
I am curious, is this a routine way of removal for corns by this provider? If so, are the corns returning? Due to the nature of a corn, it usually returns. Are they using this method as a means to "pare" the corn?
11055-57 is defined as "paring or cutting" of the corn or callus. 17110 is destruction...is this method destroying the lesion? If it is destroying the lesion, then L84 would not be the diagnosis you would want to use. The following are a selection of codes recommended:
B08.1-Molluscum contagiosum
B07.9-Viral wart, unspecified
B07.0-Plantar wart
B07.8-Other viral warts
D23.7--Other benign neoplasm of skin of lower limb, including hip
L57.0-Actinic keratosis
L82.0-Inflamed seborrheic keratosis
L82.1-Other seborrheic keratosis
L72.3-Sebaceous cyst
L72.0-Epidermal cyst
L94.2-Calcinosis cutis
L92.1-Necrobiosis lipoidica, not elsewhere classified
L98.8-Other specified disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
Q82.8-Other specified congenital malformations of skin
If, however, this method is not destroying the lesion and it is being used because the doctor likes to use it and it is a cool piece of equipment, I would opine that it is "cutting" the corn and 11055-57 should be used.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top