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Answers to Chapter Review Exercises, Appendix D - AHIMA

taken from a different lesion than the one excised, the biopsy code and an additional code for the removal of the separate lesion are reported. It would be appropriate to append modifier 59 to the code reported for the biopsy procedure. 2. Reference: CPT Assistant, October 2004, Skin Biopsy Coding Guidelines. Exercise 2.9 Coding References 1. No.

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