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My surgeon regularly removes skin lesions and as we are trying to remain compliant with our diagnosis coding a question has come up for us. We know that we should not be using a diagnosis code stating a lesion is benign or malignant without pathology showing that it actually is one or the other. However the other problem is that all of the CPT codes that describe removal of lesions specify benign or malignant (11400-11600's). Is the provider supposed to take a guess at what she is removing and code that way before pathology comes back? Or must we wait until path is received to even bill the claim at all if we wish to remain compliant? If anyone can offer assistance it would be greatly appreciated!