Anyone who has spent time trying to remove a splinter knows how tricky it can be to do it right. No need to panic, because Dr. Avir Mitra, an assistant professor of emergency medicine and ...

Some patients are shocked by how doctors are now billing for simple care. Read Removing a Splinter? Treating a Wart? If a Doctor Does It, It Can Be Billed As Surgery from Money Talks News ...

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.

Corlette surmised that the codes employed in the instances mentioned above were intended for rare, complicated cases in which the removal of a splinter or a skin lesion — or 14 of them ...

Absent reform, on it goes. Lai was so angry at being charged more than $400 to pull that splinter out of his child’s hand that he went on a crusade, returning to the dermatologist’s office ...