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May 31st, 2012 - Olerip56 15
Wound repair closure
Do you code a wound repair after a breast biopsy?
May 31st, 2012 - Codapedia Editor 1,399
re: Wound repair closure
At the same session? No, when a physician does surgery, closing the wound is part of the payment. If you download the NCCI manual, and look in the surgery chapters it will tell you that.
There are instances when you can code a repair. Look in the CPT® book at the editorial comments before code 12001.
