[Histonet] Major skin resections - CPT coding

[Cartun, Richard]

I'm curious; how do you code major (complex) skin resections that also include soft tissue?  These cases often have 10-30 paraffin blocks and lots of H&E slides.  I'm thinking that they could be coded 88307 (simple resection) or 88309 (complex resection).  I found out that our Dermatopathologist was coding these as "88305" and I don't think that is appropriate.  Thank you in advance for your comments.

Richard

Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology/Morphologic Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
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