AMA CPT® Assistant - 2012 Issue 12 (December)
Medicine: Active Wound Care Management (Q&A) (December 2012)
December 2012 page 15 Medicine: Active Wound Care Management Question: Our wound care clinic documented the following: (1) Nonselective mechanical debridement of wound bed to remove dermal level slough with normal saline moistened gauze; and (2) Chemical cautery of hypergranular tissue at 12 and 6 o'clock using one silver nitrate stick. CPT codes 97602 and 17250 were reported. Please advise the correct reporting of the use of silver nitrate sticks on the hypergranular tissue? Answer: When both nonselective mechanical debridement of the wound bed and chemical cautery of hypergranular tissue are performed at the same or different wound sites...
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