AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2022 Issue 1; In This Issue

Surgical removal of tissue by destruction

The Central Office on HCPCS frequently receives requests for assistance related to the correct coding for lesion removal. Some questions are directed at determining the correct CPT code when the documentation does not clearly indicate if a lesion was removed by excision, cutting off or cutting out tissue, or by destruction of tissue. Other questions are specific to removal by destruction. For example, how to determine if the technique documented is consistent with destruction and/or when the description in the operative report is documented differently from terms identifying destruction technique(s) specified in a code descriptor. One such example was...

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