aschaeve
Guru
I had a physician do debridement on 8 different fingers. Do you bill this code 8 times?
Alicia, CPC
Alicia, CPC
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Wiki Debridement code 11040
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dmaec
True Blue
deridement of 8 fingers,...why? due to burns? then you'd be looking under the 16000-16036 area.
aschaeve
Guru
This patient had frostbite of the fingers. The doctor had unroof the blisters first then debrided down to viable tissue.
Alicia, CPC
Alicia, CPC
belindapearl
Networker
If this is what the doctor did and documentation supports this, then bill each seperatly with the finger modifiers FA, F1, etc
aschaeve
Guru
Thank you, that is what we did.