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Consider E/M Facets for ED Wound Repair
Published on Fri May 19, 2023
Hint: Wound closure strategy matters for E/M choice. When patients present to the emergency department (ED) for wounds needing repair, coders have a lot of codes to navigate, from evaluation and management (E/M) and CPT® service codes to ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes. Wound repair scenarios are a little bit tricky, because some situations require a single code; some wound repairs cannot [...]