A 51-year-old female patient is brought to the operating room for an extraoral incision and drainage of a sublingual abscess. Upon arriving at the Incision codes in the Digestive System subsection Tongue and Floor of the Mouth (41000-41019), which piece of information will begin the coder's selection of the appropriate procedure code?

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The coder's selection of the appropriate procedure code begins with determining whether the approach to the abscess drainage is intraoral or extraoral, as the codes in the Digestive System subsection for Tongue and Floor of the Mouth procedures differentiate based on the approach used.

A 51-Year-Old Female Patient Is Brought to the Operating Room