My doctor (plastic surgeon) has had to to do a very large (1200 sq cm) full thickness skin graft on a patients arm that was nearly amputated. I am having trouble with coding this. Mostly because when I look up the code for full thickness skin graft 15220 it only allows for 20sq cm then 15221 for each additional 20sq cm. At that rate to cover I will need to bill 15220 x 1 & 15221 x 59. Is that right? 59 add on codes? Is there a better code to use? Can anyone point me in the right direction.
Thanks
Sheila
Thanks
Sheila