Wiki Needle aspiration but no biopsy

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Doctor saw the patient in the hospital for auricular inflammation secondary to auricular injury. He did needle aspiration but no fluid was aspirated. So since no fluid was aspirated and no biopsy was done, do I still use CPT code 10021? or should I add modifier 52 since no biopsy? or should I just bill the consult since no fluid was aspirated? Below is the procedure details:

The patient's right ear was anesthetized with XAP. Next, the area was anesthetized with 1cc of 1% lidocaine with 1:100,000 epinephrine. An 18 gauge needle was used to aspirate the area of swelling. No sanguinous fluid was aspirated. At this point, procedure was complete. Patient tolerated procedure well.
 
this is from the CPT Assistant April 2018 pg 4,5
An FNA biopsy is performed when material is aspirated with a fine needle and the cells are examined cytologically. It would be incorrect to report an FNA biopsy code for aspiration only.
I would just code consult.
 
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