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    Wiki Advice for excision of deep forehead mass

    The doctor removed a forehead mass that went to the skull and complex multilayer closure. The codes I found for forehead mass are 21011-21014 but none of those codes involve the bone. I also looked at code 11420. The doctor is waiting for the pathology report but he believes it might be a...
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    Wiki Occipital bone cyst removal by burring

    Hi, Need clarification on CPT coding for "Burring down of right postauricular exotosis of the skull." We see 21029 "Removal by contouring of benign tumor of facial bone" however this was the temporal bone, and isn't technically classified as facial bone. The other code we found was 61500...
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