tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 8

Coding Strategies: Advice Helps You Better Manage Your Dupuytren Claims

Crux is to identify and report the treatment option. When your providers treat a patient with Dupuytren’s contracture, you’ll need to know whether your physician used a minimally invasive or percutaneous approach and if she provided enzyme injections. Read on to learn how you code the current treatments that provide temporary improvement. Refresher: Dupuytren’s contracture is a painless thickening and fixed tightening (contracture) of the tissue beneath the skin on the palm of the hand and fingers. Progressive contracture may result in deformity and loss of hand function. Ten million Americans and many more worldwide suffer...

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