If a pt comes in to have destruction of benign skin lesion and the doctor uses 17110 and then codes a 99212 with a 25, and they both have the same dx as 078.9, is this considered fruad. The doctors that i code for tend to do this alot with e/m and procedure codes. I look at 25 as being seperatly identifiable using the same dx and the the destruction for the lesion being the reason the pt came in, in the first place, how can we also charge for a e/m with a 25.
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