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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30300 represents the removal of a foreign body from the nasal passage without incision, which is the procedure described. T17.1XXA is the ICD-10 code for a foreign body in the nose, initial encounter, which matches Timmy's situation.

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