AMA CPT® Assistant - 2008 Issue 11 (November)

Surgery/Integumentary System (November 2008)

November 2008 page 10a Surgery/Integumentary, 17110, 17111 (Q&A) Question: When the physician applies cantharidin to molluscum-contagiosum lesions (ie, wart-like lesions), would this qualify as chemosurgical destruction as intended by codes 17110-17111? Answer: Yes. Codes 17110-17111 may be used in this scenario depending on the number of lesions destroyed. For the destruction of 1 to 14 benign lesions, other than skin tags or cutaneous vascular proliferative lesions, use code 17110, Destruction (eg, laser surgery, electrosurgery, cryosurgery, chemosurgery, surgical curettement), of benign lesions other than skin tags or cutaneous vascular proliferative lesions up to 14 lesions. For 15 or more...

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