6. You perform an excision of a 1-cm basal cell cancer with a 2-cm ellipse. Frozen sections are positive, so a further 1 cm is resected. Do you code separately for each excision? Do you code separately for closure? What if you skin graft the defect? What if it is a melanoma and you take 3-cm margins?
Answer:
You do not code separately for each excision. Closure is usually included unless it requires a flap or skin graft.
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