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In-Office Post-Op Wound Infection Treatment

Published on Wed Mar 19, 2014

Question: We had a patient who was status post bladder sling (still in 90-day global period). The patient had a post-operative wound infection of the vaginal incision. The culture grew out E-coli. What procedure code(s) would be correct? The operative report reads: “Vaginal incision wound exploration with cultures, antibiotic irrigation and wound closure ... we then observed the vaginal incision and [...]
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