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Follow These Steps to Burn Coding Success
Published on Tue Jun 04, 2024
Corrosion or burn? Here’s why it matters. Patients who report to the ED with burns have always presented a coding challenge. Reporting burn codes is involved, and you’ll have to extend diagnoses to the 7th character in most cases. You’ll also have to distinguish between a corrosion and a burn, for coding purposes. This all adds up to a tall [...]