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Get the Answers to All Your Wound Repair Questions

Published on Tue Aug 11, 2020

“Classify, locate, add” is your formula for repaired laceration documentation. Coding wound repairs isn’t the easiest of tasks. Finding the right code for the anatomic site being repaired may be easy enough, but making sure you add up the total lengths of the wound repairs in the same classification and anatomic site when your pediatrician makes more than one repair [...]
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