CPT Corner Articles

• Scar revision coding may be challenging (March 2008)
• Adjacent tissue transfer coding need not be confusing (February 2008)
• New plastic surgery codes appear in CPT 2008 (January 2008)
• Definitions don't need to be complicated with a complex repair (September 2006)
• 'Cheat sheets' can help novice and experienced coders alike (February 2006)  
• Medicare does not cover all skin lesion excisions (May 2005) 
• CPT coding for lesion excisions revisited (September 2003) 
• Lesion excision coding has changed (January 2003) 
• Soft tissue masses are not skin lesions (August 2002) 
• Skin lesion excisions – returning to the fundamentals (September 2001) 
• Benign lesion excision must be justified (November 2000) 
• What are radical resections? (July 2000) 
• Coding malignant skin lesions can be a challenge (September 1999) 
• Make skin neoplasm ICD-9 codes easy to remember (August 1999) 
• What are neoplasms of uncertain behavior (July 1999) 
• Decubitus ulcer management coding has changed (March 1999) 
• 1999 skin graft, wound management coding changes (February 1999) 
• Excisions and repairs... more changes! (September 1997) 
• Potpourri: coding multiple wounds... and more (August 1997) 
• The rules just keep changing and changing! (April 1997) 
• Coding extensive adnexal lesion excisions (September 1996) 
• Scar revision procedures require a variety of codes (June 1996) 
• Medicare lesion excision coverage restricted (April 1996) 
• Everything (almost) you always wanted to know about coding soft tissue excisions (August 1995) 
• Excisions and Repairs...Again (October/November 1993) 
• Radical resections of tumors require coding accuracy (September 1993) 
• Ancillary lesion procedures: Non-"excision" lesion codes (August 1993) 
• Lesion excisions and intermediate repairs "CLARIFIED" (August 1993) 
• Coding for excision of malignant lesions (July 1993) 
• Coding for lesion excisions clarified (June 1993) 
• Repair codes revisited (May 1993) 

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