One of the fascinating things about Land Hermit Crabs is that they live in other creatures discarded shells. As they grow they will leave their old shell and find another larger one to move into. To assist the crabs with this, a few spare shells should be kept in the aquarium for such occasions.
The case involved multiple medical conditions and procedures is properly coded as Diagnosis Codes 366.16 (cataract) and 365.10 (glaucoma) and CPT Codes 66982-RT (right eye complex cataract surgery) and 66180-RT (right eye revision of an aqueous shunt/Aquaflo prosthesis).
[CPT code book definition of Complex Wound Repair: âComplex repair does not include excision of benign (11400 â 11446) or malignant (11600 â 11646) lesions] 10 See âexcisional preparationâ codes 15002 - 15005 and a skin graft code (15100â15431) for the excision of a scar and the free skin graft to repair of the defect created by the scar removalâa code from the excision of benign lesions (11400â11446) is not reported in addition to the excisional preparation code and the skin graft procedure code. 10