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    Wiki Foley just to allow wound healing

    Our Director of Nursing has placed a Foley cath so a patient can stay in bed while a pressure ulcer heals. I've coded the foley and the pressure ulcer, but she also wants a code to show that the foley is for wound healing. I'm coming up empty...I don't think it exists. Anyone else have the...
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    • coding foley icd-10 wound
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    Wiki Lap chole converted to lap cholecystostomy

    Please help! Not sure about this one. Pt was scheduled for a lap chole. Once the doctor started the procedure he states that continuing with the lap chole or even converting to open could result in high risk of bile duct injury so he did a tube cholecystostomy . I couldn't find a lap...
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