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I'm hoping some of you can help me out.
My surgeon recently performed several malignant lesion excisions (11606) on the same patient but in different locations (both arms and a leg). It came back as denied because MCR said it could only be billed 2x per day and the pt had 4 lesions removed. I coded it as:
11606-RT
DX: 173.62
11606-XS, RT
DX: 173.62
11606-XS, LT
DX: 173.62
11606-XS, LT
DX: 173.72
Has anyone had an issue like this before? In Select Coder, the MUE is 2 so are you only allowed to bill 2 per day? Especially the malignant lesions, it would make sense that the dr would be able to charge for all of the removals.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
My surgeon recently performed several malignant lesion excisions (11606) on the same patient but in different locations (both arms and a leg). It came back as denied because MCR said it could only be billed 2x per day and the pt had 4 lesions removed. I coded it as:
11606-RT
DX: 173.62
11606-XS, RT
DX: 173.62
11606-XS, LT
DX: 173.62
11606-XS, LT
DX: 173.72
Has anyone had an issue like this before? In Select Coder, the MUE is 2 so are you only allowed to bill 2 per day? Especially the malignant lesions, it would make sense that the dr would be able to charge for all of the removals.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!