Recent Changes In Dermatology Billing

Are you aware of the recent code changes in dermatology billing? Not knowing what these are could have a big impact on the revenues of the dermatology clinic since this could spell out a lot of errors to deal with. When you hire an expert in dermatology billing, you expect them to be familiar with:

• Two new Category III codes regarding the ablative treatment of burn scars
• One changed Category I code and two new Category I codes for photodynamic therapy
• Two new Category II codes related to the optical coherence tomography of skin
• Code 96573 is a new CPT code that is used to note photodynamic therapy using external application of light to eliminate premalignant lesions of the skin and the adjacent mucosa. This is a distinctly different service than the code 96574, which includes debridement of premalignant hyperkeratotic lesions and then following it with photodynamic therapy with the external application of light.

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