tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2007 Issue 9

Bandages May Not Be Aces With Payers

Expert: Check policies before coding ACE bandages as straps While you may look at an ankle wrapped in an ACE bandage and tape and automatically think "strap," your insurers may not feel the same way. Though some insurers will consider ACE bandage placement a strapping encounter, there are also payers that do not. "In my experience, both payers and clinical conventions support the use of strapping when the physician has stabilized a joint with nonrigid materials allowing the patient to retain some range of motion, such as tape, web rolls and possibly an ACE bandage," says Greer...

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