GENERAL SURGERY: Anatomic Location Is Now A Factor For Graft Preparation
New skin codes could fit you like a second skin.You could soon be reaping more reimbursement for tricky situations where your physician needs to prepare a graft site in the face or hands.Right now, you have only one set of codes for surgical preparation or creation of graft recipient site by excision: 15000 (first 100 square cm. or 1 percent of body area) and 15001 (each additional 100 square cm. or 1 percent). But CPT 2007 deletes those codes and replaces them with spiffy new codes.Now, you'll have one set of codes for graft site prep...
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