(a) While working on a construction site, a worker got a smallmetal shard embedded in his left eyelid. The physician performed aremoval of a foreign body from the left eyelid with an adjacenttissue transfer. What is the correct code(s) to report?

(b)  A patient presents to her doctor’s officecomplaining of a fullness in her right ear and loss of hearing inthat ear. Upon examination, the doctor finds impacted cerumen inthat right ear and uses suction and forceps to remove theimpaction. The patient is given medication and instructions for itsuse to prevent such impaction in the future. What is the correctcode to report?

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