When our physician uses the shave technique to remove a lesion, sometimes it is a

When our physician uses the shave technique to remove a lesion, sometimes it is a benign lesion and other times it turns out to be a malignant lesion. If the lesion removed by shave technique is malignant, should codes 11100-11101 be used instead of codes 11300-11313?

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CPT Knowledgebase - Jul 27, 2006