We sent a claim with:
40490 lip biopsy
11101 BX skin, sq tis
11100-51 Biopsy of skin
99202-25 Office visit
11100 and 11101 were denied as inclusive?
HPI: This patient presents for evaluation of a scaly, red papule ont he left nasal sidewall previously removed. Unfortunately, the lesion recurred. It was scraped away in 2001. She alo has a dark spot on the right upper lip that has continued to enlarge over the last several years.
The rest of the office visit documentation is fine.
Procedure reads as: A diagnostic shave biopsy was done for the lesion on the left upper nasal sidewall. A diagnostic 2-mm punch biopsy was done of a representative area of the lesion on the right upper lip. The defect was closed with one 6-0 nylon cuticular stitch. She tolerated the procedures fine.
Help, I am lost.
40490 lip biopsy
11101 BX skin, sq tis
11100-51 Biopsy of skin
99202-25 Office visit
11100 and 11101 were denied as inclusive?
HPI: This patient presents for evaluation of a scaly, red papule ont he left nasal sidewall previously removed. Unfortunately, the lesion recurred. It was scraped away in 2001. She alo has a dark spot on the right upper lip that has continued to enlarge over the last several years.
The rest of the office visit documentation is fine.
Procedure reads as: A diagnostic shave biopsy was done for the lesion on the left upper nasal sidewall. A diagnostic 2-mm punch biopsy was done of a representative area of the lesion on the right upper lip. The defect was closed with one 6-0 nylon cuticular stitch. She tolerated the procedures fine.
Help, I am lost.
