AMA CPT® Assistant - 1997 Issue 2 (February)

Integumentary, 17100, 17101, 17102, 17104 (Q&A) (February 1997)

February 1997 page 11-end Coding Consultation Integumentary, 17100, 17101, 17102, 17104 (Q&A) Question In the December 1996 issue of CPT Assistant, the coding consultation section included a question regarding how to code the destruction of 15 lesions. Your response was to code all 15 lesions with code 17104 alone, since this code represents 15 lesions and anything beyond. How would a lesser number of lesions be coded? AMA Comment From a CPT coding perspective, the code(s) to report would be dependent on the number of lesions to be destroyed. One lesion would be reported as code 17100*; two lesions...

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