Timmy, a 5-year-old, was playing with his toys and decided to stick a bead from his sister's necklace up his nose. The bead was lodged in his nasal passage, and after several unsuccessful attempts by his mother and father to remove it, they took him to the emergency room. After triaging the patient, the physician utilized a surgical instrument to help remove the bead from Timmy's nasal passage. Code the physician services:

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The correct coding for the physician's services in removing a foreign body from the nasal passage is 30300, which refers to the removal of a foreign body from the nose without incision. The diagnosis code T17.1XXA is used for a foreign body in the nose, initial encounter, which matches the scenario described.

Timmy, a 5-Year-Old, Was Playing with His Toys and Decided