Wound care: For surgical prep of acute wounds, consider using codes 15002-15005
If your practice uses the surgical debridement codes (11042-11047) every time a physician surgically removes tissue for a wound debridement case regardless of intention, your incorrect coding shortchanges your pay and sets you up for unnecessary denials, coding experts say.
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