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Pt has an "open wound" of finger due to raynaud's disease. The only open wound codes are unspecified, laceration and puncture wound. We don't believe it really fits under either. How would we code this with ICD 10? Would we use a non-pressure ulcer code or an unspecified, laceration or puncture code??

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An "open wound" due to Raynaud's disease would be an ulcer but it would be good to discuss with physician before assigning the code to make sure that there was not an initial injury. If no injury, I agree with non-pressure ulcer and code for Raynaud's.
 
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