Hello, this is a CPT coding case. I am unable to located Medical Billing & Codin

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Hello, this is a CPT coding case. I am unable to located Medical Billing & Coding for subject.

Will greatly appreciate your help. Thanks so much.

A patient with multiple healed scars requests they be removed and repaired for cosmetic reasons. The defects include a 100-cm2 scar of the right cheek and a 200-cm2 defect of the left upper chest. Several spli-thickness skin grafts totaling 300-cm2 are harvested from the left and right thighs. The scar tissue is cut away, and the sites are prepared for grafting.

Cheek Graft: ___________________

Upper Cheek Graft: _____________________

                                   ______________________

Site prep, cheek, 100-cm2 ______________________

Site prep, chest, 200-cm2 _______________________

Explanation / Answer

The CPT code for surgery is range in from 10021 to 69990. Therefore, the code for cheek graft is 15000 and upper cheek graft is 15010 and the code for cheek,100cm2 = 15100 and chest, 200cm2 =15200

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