“Can you describe what is a “sufficiently detailed exam” to confirm the diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease? I was audited and the debridement of calluses were denied even documentation of every single class finding were listed. Are we supposed to do ankle brachial indexes, Buerger’s test, etc? Why have class findings if they do not qualify as “sufficiently detailed?”
CPT code 11755 is defined as the following: Biopsy of nail unit (e.g. plate, bed, matrix, hyponychium, proximal and lateral nail folds) (separate procedure).
It is amazing to me how often this CPT code is misused and abused.
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