AMA CPT® Assistant - 1994 Issue 4 (April)

Mohs' Micrographic Surgery (Winter 1994)

Winter 1994 pages 19-20 Mohs' Micrographic Surgery Mohs' micrographic surgery is a procedure for treatment of skin cancer which combines both surgical excision and frozen section pathologic interpretation into a specific group of CPT codes (17304-07, and 17310). This coding group accounts for the professional service for the surgery and the pathologic interpretation. In the 1995 CPT manual, code 17304 is revised to include complete histologic preparation. MOHS' MICROGRAPHIC SURGERY Mohs' micrographic surgery, for the removal of complex or ill-defined skin cancer, requires a single physician to act in two integrated, but separate and distinct capacities: surgeon and pathologist...

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