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Wiki Partial Wound Repair

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The patient has a large abscess. The physician has added a suture to the base of the wound to promote healing. The code the facility has chosen represents the total size of the wound 12006 20.1cm-30cm. This section of the CPT 12006 appears to represent the size of the repair rather than the size of the wound. I have queried online but have found no clear direction. In the cases that are given online; the provider is also doing a wound debridement and the direction leans towards coding the debridement over the partial closure.

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you are correct in stating the 12006 should not be used, you need to use the deridement codes according to the documentation.
 
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