AMA CPT® Assistant - 2008 Issue 6 (June)

Surgery/Integumentary System (June 2008)

June 2008 page 14b Surgery/Integumentary System, 16025, 16030 (Q&A) Question: If the physician changes dressings on two medium wounds on separate extremities on a burn patient, should code 16025, Dressings and/or debridement of partial-thickness burns, initial or subsequent; medium (eg, whole face or whole extremity, or 5% to 10% total body surface area), be reported twice? Answer: No. Only one code would be reported, code 16030, Dressings and/or debridement of partial-thickness burns, initial or subsequent; large (eg, more than one extremity, or greater than 10% total body surface area). The codes in this series are to be used...

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