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Get Bang on Your Laceration Reporting Code with These Three Steps

Published on Mon Sep 26, 2016

Hint: Check CCI when reporting multiple wounds of same class. When your clinician performs a laceration repair, you will have to base your code selection on the type of repair, the anatomical location of the wound, and the length of laceration repair. Use these three steps to help you guide your code selection whenever your clinician performs laceration repair(s) for [...]
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