elizabeth24
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Can someone please help me find a "degloving" injury code? I need this ASAP! I have looked under degloving and injury. I am not finding anything. Thanks!
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Wiki Degloving Code?
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FTessaBartels
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Try looking under wound, open
Not sure what body part you're looking at ...
Try looking under Wound, open.
F Tessa Bartels, CPC, CEMC
Not sure what body part you're looking at ...
Try looking under Wound, open.
F Tessa Bartels, CPC, CEMC
elizabeth24
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It is degloving of the hand. That is the best code I have found as well. Wound, open, hand, complicated. I cannot believe they don't have a specific code for "degloving." To me that is definitely more serious than a complicated wound. Thanks!
desertsteph65
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Degloving
I AM also stumped by degloving term. I will use the wound, open, hand, complicated code. If the gal who is proofing my coding tells me different, I will get back to you.
I AM also stumped by degloving term. I will use the wound, open, hand, complicated code. If the gal who is proofing my coding tells me different, I will get back to you.
ohn0disaster
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Degloving injury to the hand would be coded to Wound, open, hand. Only if the documentation states that there is a complication, such as delayed healing or infection and so on, would you use the complicated code.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
