Never have done much of any lesion coding so looking to confirm or get some direction...if a doctor indicates that lesion removed of the shoulder was 1.2 cm but the pathology reports says 1.5 x 0.9 x 0.5cm with surface measuring .8cm then what is actually considered the diameter excised? I'm sure we are just not seeing something simple here on the appropriate cpt code. The diagnosis is skin, left shoulder, basal cell carcinoma.
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Wiki Lesions
- Thread starter nbohm
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mitchellde
True Blue
in this scenario the path size is bigger at 1.5 but did the provider measure the lesion or the excised diameter which is the lesion size plus the margins. We are suppose to use the excised diameter. And yes they shrink in the solution.