You Be the Coder: Watch for Adjacent Tissue Transfer Included Services

Article Overview

This article is a short coding advisory for professional billers and coders focused on facial lesion excision and adjacent tissue transfer. It discusses the relationship between the procedure codes involved, when the services may be bundled versus reported separately, and the relevance of postoperative timing and a modifier tied to staged or related procedures. The piece is useful for coders working with surgical, dermatologic, and reconstructive procedures who need to understand how these services are handled in the context of the global period.