Destruction of Seborrheic Keratosis

Question:

I have a patient encounter. I need to code for a patient with 3 SK’s, 2 on the right forearm and 1 on the left forearm. The physician froze the lesions. I am thinking I should code 17000 x 1 and 17003 x 2. Is this correct?

Answer:

The correct CPT code to report for destruction of SK’s is 17110 (destruction benign lesions other than skin tags or cutaneous vascular proliferative lesions up to 14). You will only report CPT code 17110 with 1 unit since the code includes 1-14 lesions. CPT codes 17000-17004 is used to report the destruction of premalignant lesions for example an AK (actinic keratosis).

*This response is based on the best information available as of 3/27/25.