Wiki Wound Care/Dressing Changes

[smontague]

We have a patient who is being followed in our nursing department for wound care. He comes in and has his dressing changes done -- we have been billing the service as 99211 but weren't sure if there might be a better choice for coding. The only ones we can seem to find are either with anesthesia or with debridement -- neither of which are being used. He simply comes in has the old dressing removed and the new dressing put on. Does anyone know -- is 99211 the correct charge or should we be billing this differently?

 

[mitchellde]

the 99211 sounds good given the info you provided. Be sure to use V58.xx dx code for the attention to dressings as your first listed dx code

 

[01085585]

are you getting paid by ins for this service?