My doctor performed an excisional biopsy of deep cervical nodes and in the process removed some fat pad with them. Can he code 38520 (excision of lymph node(s); open,deep cervical node(s) with excision of scalene fat pad) when only a portion of the fat pad has been removed, or should he use code 38510 which would represent the deep cervical nodes?
Last edited by daknaack; 11-24-2010 at 10:49 AM.