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3 Cases Hone Your 11640-11646 Skills

Published on Thu Apr 17, 2014

See if you miss extra pay opportunities. Do you know when your skin excision cases warrant a separate closure charge or maybe an additional code for lesion re-excision? If you don’t, you might be leaving your general surgeon’s money on the table.  Test your knowledge of the 11640-11646 (Excision, malignant lesion including margins, face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips…) CPT® codes, [...]
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