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    Wiki Coding pressure ulcer stages, should ICD stage be updated during healing process?

    For wound care, we are asking our providers to updated their ICD-10 codes when a wound changes stages. Example Sacral pressure ulcer stage 4 at initial assessment, but as services are being rendered, after a few visits, the staging is now at a stage 3. ICD should be updated to reflect Sacral...
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    Wiki Diabetic/Pressure Ulcer

    Okay so this case got me thinking. The patient is diabetic and in the note the doctor states "new pressure ulcer in the face of diabetes to the right fifth toe". Then later in the assessment he states "Wagner grade 2 diabetic foot ulcer in the face of pressure." Would you just take this to...
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    Wiki non pressure and pressure ulcers

    i know this may sound like a dumb question but i just want to clarify....does the physician have to document "pressure ulcer" if they are documenting the stage? also when they are documenting a non pressure ulcer and saying it is partial thickness or full thickness is this ok? or do they have to...
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