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The correct ICD-10-CM code is B07.9 Viral wart, unspecified. John Verhovshek, MA, CPC, is a contributing editor at AAPC. He has been covering medical coding and billing, healthcare policy, and the business of medicine since 1999. He is an alumnus of York College of Pennsylvania and Clemson University. Warts are a form of lesion most often ...
Answer: Coding for the procedure and the E/M always depends on the circumstances of the encounter. Consider the following scenarios, then apply them to your own circumstances to decide. Scenario 1: An established patient arrives at your office with their parent who tells you the patient has four warts behind their left ear that need to be removed.
He advises cryo pen removal for both patients. You may naturally code 17110 for both cases but you may face rejection. Codes 17110 and 17111 are appropriate for flat warts and molluscum contagiosum destruction, but you should consider 17000 and 17003 for plantar wart removal in patient A. Code 17000 would be assigned for the first wart.
Best answers. 0. Aug 1, 2013. #2. You may not bill an E/M service in this scenario. It is clearly stated that the patient is coming in for a wart removal. There is no separate significant exam so this would no warrant an E/M code. Code 17000 and 17003 for the cryo removal of 4 warts would be coded alone. Hope this helps,
Distinguish Between Destruction and Excision to Optimize Reimbursement. Genital warts, or lesions, is a common sexually transmitted disease (STD) and one that gynecologists treat through routine methods of removal. But when lesions are present in several different sites of the female genital organs, including the vulva, vagina and cervix, apply ...
Mar 27, 2014. #7. When I ran the pediatric practice, wart removal was always an issue since the removal is considered "surgery" and the surgical procedure trumps the e and m since some e and m is involved in the surgical procedure. But, how to get paid for that new patient eval or an established patient for some other CC with a "by the way, can ...
CPT Codes. Surgery. Surgical Procedures on the Integumentary System. Surgical Procedures on the Skin, Subcutaneous and Accessory Structures. Shaving of Epidermal or Dermal Lesions Procedures. 11300. 11201.
Location. unicoi, TN. Best answers. 0. Jul 14, 2014. #4. In my experience, coding the well visit with modifier 25 and then the wart removal would be fine. I can not see adding a level two if there were not other acute issues. Adding the modifier to the well visit and e/m will only bypass and editing system.
Flat warts (Verruca plana): A small, smooth flattened wart, flesh-colored, which can occur in large numbers; most common on the face, neck, hands, wrists and knees. Commonly seen in teenagers. Venereal warts (Condyloma acuminatum, Verruca acuminata): A wart that occurs on the genitalia. B07.8.
CPT 17110 was billed for the first treatment. I have been told re-treatment of the same wart during the global period, cannot be billed. I was later told that an office visit should be billed for the re-treatment. Later I was told that cpt 17110 should be billed with a 76 modifier. Can anyone clarify the correct way to bill for the re-treatment ...