When reporting excision of skin lesions (11400-11646), in addition to other procedures at the same anatomic location during the same session, be on the lookout for the following bundling issues. Do not report in addition to lesion excision: Local anesthesia. Simple closures (12001-12018)
tick bite. a puncture wound produced by the toothed beak of a blood-sucking tick, a small, tough-skinned arachnid. Ticks transmit several diseases to humans, and a few species carry a neurotoxin in their saliva that may cause ascending paralysis beginning in the legs.
Typically in tick-borne diseases, a tick bite is recalled by 50 to 70 percent of patients.3,4 The onset of symptoms of Rocky Mountain spotted fever usually begins five to seven days after inoculation.