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Removing a Splinter? Treating a Wart? If a Doctor Does It, It Can Be Billed As Surgery Elisabeth Rosenthal Updated Tue, December 24, 2024 at 2:37 AM UTC ...
That brief tug was transformed into a surgical billing code: Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code 10120, "incision and removal of a foreign body, subcutaneous" — at a cost of $414.