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    Wiki Destruction of benign lesions vs Destruction of cutaneous vascular proliferative

    If we have strawberry patch or cherry angiomas removed, would you use 17110 or 17106-17108 if done by cryotherapy? If billing 17106, is there any problems with reimbursements from ins cos?
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    Wiki closure of mucous fistula

    Surgeon performed a lap proctectomy with colo-anal anastomosis (CPT 45112). She also "repaired an intestinal cutaneous fistula", which she wants to use CPT 44640. However, the "intestinal cutaneous fistula" is actually the mucous fistula that she created at a previous surgery several months...
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    Wiki Repair of Excision on Cutaneous Lip

    I have an old note on which I had written that when a complex repair is on the cutaneous (rather than vermillion) lip, it must be coded as repair of face (1313x) rather than repair of lip (1315x), because the "lip" for coding purposes only includes the vermillion. However, when I looked at the...
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