mindyanna
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I have a podiatrist who is doing a delayed primary closure of a foot ulceration and an akle ulceration. I am not sure what codes to use for these. The op note reads as follows:
"The foot ulceration medially was then debrided with a sharp 15 blade, rongeur, curet and then a delayed primary closure was performed after pulse lavage with 3 liters normal sterile saline with #1 PDS suture without difficulty" and the ankle one states:
"A right lateral ankle ulceration was debrided with a sharp 15 blade, rongeur and curet and pluse lavage with 3 liters of normal sterile saline and closed with #1 PDS suture in a palm-sole stitch fashion without difficulty."
He also puts a wound VAC and debrided a right ankle wound posterior. Also closed with #1 PDS suture proximally but the distal aspect of the posterior ankle ulceration was then wound VAC'd closed with 125 mmHg continuous without difficulty
I am not sure what a #1 PDS suture is. Is this a simple, intermediate or a complex type of closure?
Can anyone help direct me to the correct set of codes to use for this procedure?
Thank you!
"The foot ulceration medially was then debrided with a sharp 15 blade, rongeur, curet and then a delayed primary closure was performed after pulse lavage with 3 liters normal sterile saline with #1 PDS suture without difficulty" and the ankle one states:
"A right lateral ankle ulceration was debrided with a sharp 15 blade, rongeur and curet and pluse lavage with 3 liters of normal sterile saline and closed with #1 PDS suture in a palm-sole stitch fashion without difficulty."
He also puts a wound VAC and debrided a right ankle wound posterior. Also closed with #1 PDS suture proximally but the distal aspect of the posterior ankle ulceration was then wound VAC'd closed with 125 mmHg continuous without difficulty
I am not sure what a #1 PDS suture is. Is this a simple, intermediate or a complex type of closure?
Can anyone help direct me to the correct set of codes to use for this procedure?
Thank you!