tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 29

Dermatology: Code for Multiple Warts Separately, or Throw Away Reimbursement

For multiple billings, know the difference between flat warts and othersIf you're only billing once for wart destruction, you could be costing your practice big money. You can bill +17003 (Destruction, all benign or premalignant lesions; second through 14th lesions, each) for each wart your physician destroys, up to the 15th wart. You bill 17000* (Destruction, all benign or premalignant lesions other than skin tags or cutaneous vascular proliferative lesions; first lesion) and then one unit of 17003 for each additional wart. If the patient has more than 14 lesions, you simply CPT bill 17004 (Destruction; 15 or...

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