The doctor performs an incision and drainage on a complicated abscess of the skin in the office. What is the procedure code?

Answer 1

The correct code is 10061. Refer to your CPT coding book for the following CPT guidelines:

Integumentary subheadings are skin, subcutaneous, and accessory structures; nails; pilonidal cyst; introduction; repair (closure); destruction; and breast. These are further divided by the procedures done within each subheading, such as I&D, excisions, biopsies, and lesions.