Medical Billing and Coding
A surgeon biopsies 4 lesions during a rigid esophagoscopy. How would these services be reported?
a. 43200, 43202-51
b .43202 x 4
c. 43202
d. 43215
Option C is answer as the correct CPT code for multiple lesions during a rigid esophagoscopy is 43202 as the major code while the base code for this function is 43200.
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