CPT^® 15120, Under Autografts/Tissue Cultured Autograft

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 15120 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Autografts/Tissue Cultured Autograft.

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This procedure is a split–thickness autograft of the face, scalp, eyelids, mouth, neck, ears, orbits, genitalia, hands, feet, and/or multiple digits. This excision and placement is for the first 100 square cm or less or 1% of the body area of an infant or child.

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help on code please

i am thinking 15120 69310 69145 would the excision of the lesion be inclusive to the canalplasty-though i am not sure i see the description of canalplasty TIA [ATTACH type="full"]5800[/ATTACH]... [ Read More ]

Adjacent Tissue Transfer with two types of Skin Grafts - help needed on coding

Please help! I have a patient who had multiple procedures done the same day by two different providers and I'm struggling with the coding. I have reached out to another coding at my job for help but h... [ Read More ]

Workers Comp OWCP related claim denials on modifiers used

I have several claims for skin grafts on a patient who is in a global period for placement of an autograft 15100-15121. As the patient has over 50% TBSA burns, he has multiple grafts and is going to ... [ Read More ]

canalplasty

hi looking for some verification here, i am not sure if canalplasty was done, pt did not have stenosis. What i am seeing is 15120 21235 harvest 69145 excision of the lesion in canal thanks in advance... [ Read More ]

COMPLEX OR INTERMEDIATE REPAIR?

I don't see anywhere that a complex or intermediate repair was done. Plus it looks like the complex and intermediate repairs would bundle into the graft anyway (they bundle when I put them in encoder... [ Read More ]

COMPLEX OR INTERMEDIATE REPAIR?

In surgery: Graft sutured in place using 4-0 chromic sutures to tie down edges . Xeroform and cotton was sutured using 2-0 silk sutures. A biopsy was taken and 2 marking stitches for anterior and supe... [ Read More ]

type of suture for complex repair or intermediate

split thickness graft with closure/repair

15120 is for a graft used as skin replacement in an integumentary procedure. For a skin graft used for an intranasal or turbinate procedure, you may want to consider 20926. It's hard to advise on th... [ Read More ]

split thickness graft with closure/repair

CPT codes for Split thickness graft are different from the codes for intermediate or complex closure. In this scenario, the appropriate CPT code is 15120- [U]Split-thickness autograft[/U], [U]face[/U]... [ Read More ]

ENT BAHA

[QUOTE="cpc2007, post: 472484, member: 15287"] I would consider 15004-15005 for the excision of the overgrowth/infected tissue and 15120-15121 vs. 15220-15221 for the skin graft for procedure you desc... [ Read More ]

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