Wiki Excision and repair

simam

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The wound excision size is given by doctor is 0.5 cm and intermediate repair final wound length is 1 cm. Can you please advise for excision code selection should I consider 1 cm or .05 cm AND what is margin meant in CPT. Thank you
 
is this an excision of a lesion? The margin is the surface around the excision. Your CPT codebook shows pictures of the margins to help identify correct coding in this instance.

I can help but I would need a little more information from the OP report on this procedure to allow for more guidance on the coding.
 
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