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Wiki Gunshot Wound - ? Qualify as Puncture Wound with foreign body

Hi Everyone, If anyone has time, could you look at this and respond? Scenario: A patient had a gunshot wound that entered the left buttock and exited his left inner thigh. The patient was fine.. no other problems. No severed arteries, etc. Which code would be most appropriate? 1...
- Alli_77
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- Jan 18, 2016
- body gunshot wound puncture puncture wound wound
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Diagnosis Coding
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Wiki Radial artery puncture

Our physicians do cath and have started to do them through the radial artery punture instead of through the groin how would I code this. I typically use 93452 is there a different code since they are going in a different way? Please Help :)
- MFaulkner
- Thread
- Mar 3, 2011
- cath puncture radial artery puncture
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Cardiology

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