Surgical Repair:
Understanding Repair Complexity Is a Simple Key to Coding Success
Published on Tue Oct 29, 2013
Knowing the difference between complex and simple repair can be worth $300 to your practice. Getting the wrong repair code could cost your practice plenty — for instance, you’d lose $300 for a 2.5 cm complex foot wound closure wrongly billed as a simple foot repair. And considering that some procedures include simple closure but allow you to separately bill [...]