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Example: A physician trims fingernails or toenails, usually with scissors, nail cutters, or another instrument when the nails are dystrophic from nutritional or metabolic abnormalities. So in this case, we're only trimming the 3 nails but there doesn't seem to be a good code to use. Would we use 11720 for debridement of 3 nails with a diagnosis code of 250.80 since the patient has DMII with dystrophic nails or would we use the unlisted code to capture the charge?