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A physician removes 12 benign lesions from a patient during the same visit. The appropriate way to bill for this would be:

Answer: c

In order to be properly reimbursed for removing the 12 lesions, it would be necessary to use two CPT codes. CPT 17000 would be used for the 1st lesion. CPT 17003 would be used for the 2nd through the 12th lesion. If you did not use both codes, the carrier would only reimburse for the removal of the first lesion.

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