Surgery to remove a splinter? An operation to apply ointment? Some patients are shocked by how their doctors bill for simple ...

How to get a splinter out According to Mitra, a splinter is a "relatively small object that penetrates the skin and usually stays lodged in or near the [top] skin layer." The most common splinters ...

What happens if you leave a splinter in your skin for too long? Splinters are a literal pain, removing them just causes more pain. But what happens if you leave a splinter in your skin?

Hair splinters occur when sharp hair strands pierce your skin causing pain and irritation Learn the causes symptoms and safe ...

The doctor grabbed a pair of forceps — aka tweezers — and pulled out the splinter in “a second,” Lai said. That brief tug was transformed into a surgical billing code: Current Procedural Terminology ...

Corlette surmised that the codes employed in the instances mentioned above were intended for rare, complicated cases in which the removal of a splinter or a skin lesion — or 14 of them ...

When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son to a pediatrician last summer for a checkup, the doctor noticed a little splinter in the child’s palm. “He must have gotten it ...

Routine procedures such as splinter removal and wart treatment are increasingly billed as surgeries, leading to unexpected costs for patients. When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler ...