AMA CPT® Assistant - 2006 Issue 11 (November)
Mohs Micrographic Surgery (November 2006)
November 2006 pages 1-7 Mohs Micrographic Surgery CPT 2007 contains revisions to the Mohs surgery codes. These revisions result from the Five-Year Review of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. Through the Five-Year Review process, the recommendation was made to differentiate the physician work of the Mohs surgeon according to site, such as the head, neck and hands from the trunk, arms, and legs. The word complete was removed from the code descriptor for Mohs surgery before "histopathologic preparation including routine stains" to indicate that when special staining is used with Mohs surgery, such special stains are to be reported...
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