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DAVID STERN, MD (Practice Velocity) Q.Are you able to bill the following two codes together with a modifier: 17110 (Destruction [e.g., laser surgery, electrosurgery, cryosurgery, chemosurgery, surgical curettement], of benign lesions other than skin tags or cutaneous vascular proliferative lesions; up to 14 lesions) 17111 (15 or more lesions)? – Question submitted by Julie Briggs A.These are mutually exclusive codes. You can use 17110 if the physician destroys 14 or less benign lesions (usually warts). …

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