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Wiki Surgical Wound Revision

Please help! I've been searching and I feel like this wound dehiscence repair is more than simple closure (12020) but I'm not sure it qualifies as complex (13160)? Indications: Patient had a new InsterStim battery placed in the right buttock. Over the last 2 weeks wound started to separate and...
- toria11
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- Jul 29, 2021
- surgical wound wound dehiscence
- Replies: 2
- Forum: General Surgery
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Wiki Old C-Section wound reopened

Hello! If a patient is 2-years post Cesarean Delivery, and is presenting with a small opening on the corner of her C-section scar (no signs of infection)...Would it be appropriate to code O90.0 - disruption of cesarean delivery wound? Thank you!
- ELBrock
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- Jan 8, 2020
- cesarean delivery wound dehiscence
- Replies: 4
- Forum: ICD-10
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Wiki TKA Wound Dehiscence with Synovectomy

When a patient is taken to the OR for wound dehiscence closure and during the surgery the provider does more than just secondary wound closure, can the additional work be reported in addition to 13160? Preoperative Dx: 1. Left total knee arthroplasty, persistent drainage, concerning for...
- SavCoder
- Thread
- Sep 30, 2019
- i&d with synovectomy total knee arthroplasty wound dehiscence
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Orthopaedics

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