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    Wiki Surgical Wound Revision

    Please help! I've been searching and I feel like this wound dehiscence repair is more than simple closure (12020) but I'm not sure it qualifies as complex (13160)? Indications: Patient had a new InsterStim battery placed in the right buttock. Over the last 2 weeks wound started to separate and...
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    Wiki How to Code for a Non-Healing Surgical Wound without Complication/Sequela/Infection

    I have been reading the many threads on the forum regarding a non-healing/delayed-healing surgical wound, but none quite fit my situation (of note: I work in a clinic where the provider enters their codes and a coder checks them). Patient had a MOHs surgery for removal squamous cell carcinoma...
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