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Wound Care:

Correctly Distinguish Wound Closure Levels Every Time With This Advice

Published on Wed Oct 07, 2015

Follow our tips to spot documentation showing the differences between simple and complex repairs. You often come across wound closures that your podiatrist has performed but not all wound closures are equal. You are on the path to coding success if you grasp the finer points of coding these procedures by knowing how to distinguish one closure type from another. [...]
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