In recent years it has come to be used in cosmetic medicine as a technique for facial rejuvenation and for the treatment of alopecia or areas of hyperpigmentation.2 Lipolytic mesotherapy uses various agents with lipolytic activity (mainly phosphatidylcholine and deoxycholate) for the treatment of localized fat deposits in the neck, eyelids, hips, abdomen, or thighs.3 These substances act as detergents, provoking nonspecific damage to the cell wall, with adipocyte necrosis and subsequent inflammatory infiltrate with a predominance initially of neutrophils and later of T lymphocytes, with granulomas and foam cells.4 The final stage is secondary fibrosis in the adipose tissue.5 Although mesotherapy is considered a safe procedure as it is minimally invasive and is usually well tolerated, numerous local and systemic side effects have been reported
If the code indicates obesity (E66.x) rather than diabetes (E11.x) or sleep apnea (G47.33), the claim auto-rejects with "Reject Code 88: Use is not medically accepted." You can, but it's unlikely to succeed for plan exclusions
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Exposure on liver models and enteric bacteria suggests that the liver is the main site of biotransformation of these metabolites
