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Specify Laterality to Arrive Quickly to the Correct Open Foot Wound Codes

Published on Wed Dec 23, 2015

Wounds of muscles and tendons have their own series. The next time you code an open foot wound, get ready to dig for specifics in the documentation. Under the ICD-10 diagnosis coding system, you have codes based not only on whether the wound is complicated or has tendon involvement, but also based on which foot is involved and what type [...]
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