Wiki Stage 4 Sacral Decubitus

[Hopp]

Please help coding the following: Debridement of Sacral
decubit. with necrotic muscle facia and exposed spinous
process. Just not sure which procedure code to use
Thank you in advance
Deb, CPC

 

[RebeccaWoodward*]

Please help coding the following: Debridement of Sacral
decubit. with necrotic muscle facia and exposed spinous
process. Just not sure which procedure code to use
Thank you in advance
Deb, CPC

You may want to post the op note so that we can see what, exactly, was done but you can start by looking at 15931. But again, this is only a "starting place" since your description is somewhat vague. 15931 mentions excision with suture

Or possibly the 11040-11044 series

 

[Hopp]

Stage IV Sacral Decubitus

Thanks for your help, but I did eventually get the code as it was a Debridement & NOT EXcision. SO I did have to use the 11043 code-Thanks for steering me in the right direction
Thanks again Deb,CPC