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Avoid Lamenting Over Laceration Coding With These Top 4 Tips

Published on Thu Apr 23, 2015

Do not ignore the services for debridement in contaminated wounds. Your neurosurgeon may perform laceration repairs in the scalp, neck, face and other sites in patients with injuries. The coding challenge lies in situations when your surgeon performs the repairs in two distinct sites or does a repair in a highly contaminated field. Learn more about what constitutes a ‘simple’ [...]
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