A 22-year-old woman with excessive skin of her upper eyelid presented to her physician's office for the revision of her right eyelid. Her physician decided that she would perform a blepharoplasty of the right eyelid, during which she would remove the excessive skin weighing down the lid. When the physician performs this procedure, what code should she report?

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When the physician performs this procedure, she should report code 15823 (Blepharoplasty, Upper Eyelid; with Excessive Skin weighting Down Lid). Modifier -50 is inappropriate because the procedure is only going to be performed on the right side not bilaterally. Code 15820 is inappropriate because it refers to a blepharoplasty of the lower eyelid.

A 22-Year-Old Woman with Excessive Skin of Her Upper Eyelid