Doctor is seeing patient in office and wants to charge to remove sutures on patient that he is seeing in office. This pt. had sutures placed in ER (over 30 sutures). Can he charge to remove the sutures and if so what would be the code. Thank you for your help.
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Wiki Removing sutures in office
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mitchellde
True Blue
There is no code for suture removal, it is included with the E&M
cgifford
Contributor
The charge will be included in his office visit charge.