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Clean Up Your Ankle Wound Coding With These 3 Tips

Published on Mon May 02, 2022

Find the cause of the wound before you select a code. Checking the medical documentation of a patient’s encounter is especially important when you’re coding a wound care situation, because the type of wound, the cause, and the exact location of the wound all affect your potential code choices. Don’t waste time in the wrong part of your ICD-10-CM book: [...]
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