AMA CPT® Assistant - 1998 Issue 12 (December)

Reporting a Complex Wound Repair over 7.5 cm (December 1998)

December 1998 page 5 Coding Commentary Reporting a Complex Wound Repair over 7.5 cm Recently inquiries have been received about reporting code 13300, complex repair over 7.5 cm, for a complex repair of two separate anatomic sites not listed in the same code descriptor. For example, a complex repair was performed on a forehead (code 13132) with another separate complex repair performed on the scalp (code 13121). CPT code 13300 is not intended to be reported to identify a complex repair representing the total sum of the lengths of two or more anatomic sites when those anatomic...

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