Biopsies and lesion destruction codes are often performed at the same patient visit. This leads to questions about bundling and modifiers. There are two steps to billing these correctly and avoiding denials:

• Check the total RVU values
• Check the NCCI edits.

There is a step-by-step procedure for coding multiple procedures at the end of this article. It will show you how to do this with any two procedure codes. But, here are some common combinations.

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