A physician excises a 3.1-cm malignant lesion of the scalp that requires full-thickness graft from the thigh to the scalp. In CPT, which of the following procedures should be coded?

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Code for both the excision of the malignant lesion and the full-thickness skin graft to the scalp. The excision and skin graft from the thigh are included in the full-thickness skin graft to the scalp code. Option A only codes for the skin graft and option C adds an additional excision code that is not necessary. Option D is incorrect because code 15000 is for surgical preparation of the recipient site only and does not include the actual graft procedure.

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