AMA CPT® Assistant - 2000 Issue 2 (February)
Surgery Integumentary System (February 2000)
February 2000 page 11 Coding Consultation Integumentary System, Surgery, 11900, 11901, 11300-11313 (Q&A) Question Should I use both codes 11900* and 11901* when reporting eight lesions of intralesional injection? AMA Comment If more than seven lesions of intralesional injections are performed, then code 11901* should be used one time to identify the procedure performed. As code 11901* is not an add-on code, it is not appropriate to report it in addition to code 11900*. Question When our physician uses the shave technique to remove a lesion, sometimes it is a benign lesion and other times it turns out...
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