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Remove Any Confusion With Answers to These 5 Debridement FAQs

Published on Wed Nov 26, 2025

Do burn debridement procedures have their own codes? Removing unhealthy or dead tissue from a wound is crucial to helping the wound heal properly. This process is known as debridement, and reporting the procedures can be complicated even for the most experienced surgery coders. Gena Cornett, CPC, CPB, CPCO, CRCR, RCMS, CPB-I, vice president of billing and revenue management at [...]
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