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Please assign TWO CPT codes. Thank you. Digital nerve block was applied to numb the top...

Please assign TWO CPT codes. Thank you.

Digital nerve block was applied to numb the top of the right great toe and the left great toe. Blunt dissection of the nail plate from the nail bed, right great toe, was performed. Bleeding was cauterized. Right great toe was bandaged. Next, the left great toenail plate was removed from the nail bed, bleeding was cauterized, and left great toe was bandaged.
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CPT code: Current Procedural Terminology code
Procedure done:
1, Blunt dissection of the nail plate from the nail bed, right great toe
2, Removal of left great toenail plate
code 1:
Blunt dissection is the careful seperation of tissues along tissues planes by fingers..
11730- avulsion of the nail plate,partial or complete,simple,single.
11732- for blunt dissection,this involve the whole nail or a part of the nail..If more than one nail is done 11732 code used for each additional nail
So code 11730,11732 X 2
code 2:
Removal of left great toenail plate
11750 for excision of nail and nail matrix,partial or complete
so code 11750 for removal of left great toenail plate..

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