CPT®:
Check Medical Documentation for Exact Technique, Number of Lesions to Smoothly Navigate Biopsy Claims
Published on Wed Jan 20, 2021
With an incisional biopsy, the podiatrist must use a sharp blade, not a punch tool. When your podiatrist biopsies a lesion and performs a diagnostic pathologic examination, you must pay close attention to which technique he used, how many lesions he worked on, and how far into the skin layers the biopsy went. These details will dictate which CPT® code [...]