A 56-year-old male presents to a podiatry office with complaints of recurrent problems with an ingrown toenail on his right great toe. He has been treated multiple times with antibiotics, but the pain and swelling is causing him difficulty wearing his work boots. He currently does not have an infection, although the ingrown toenail is present and painful. The doctor performs a wedge excision of the skin of the nail fold to his right great toe. Which of the following codes should you use?

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11765 is correct because it is the only code that is specific to wedge excision of the skin of nail fold.
Code 10060 is incorrect because the ingrown toenail was not infected and did not require drainage. Code 11760 is incorrect because there was no repair done to the nail bed and 11750 is incorrect because the wedge excision was performed to the skin, not the nail itself, and the nail was not removed

A 56-Year-Old Male Presents to a Podiatry Office with Complaints