Forum - Questions & Answers

Nov 20th, 2009 - anicole76

Lesion Excision

If a patient comes in for an office visit because they have an abnormal lesion can we bill for the lesion excision and an office visit or just the excision?

Nov 20th, 2009 - nmaguire   2,606 

E/M/procedure

It depends on patient status. Questions asked to determine if you will or will not perform the excision are part of doing the procedure. If a new patient, an E/M is probably medically necessary. If the patient was told to return for the excision, only bill excision code.
If managing other conditions not related to excision, bill E/M and procedure (modifier 25, if minor procedure on E/M code).



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