Tonyj
True Blue
Should you, would you, could you use a wound code for a patient admitted for angiopathy and debridement of diabetic-related, non-healing bilateral heel ulcers?
Patient is dx with 250.81 (DIABETES WITH OTHER SPECIFIED MANIFESTATIONS, TYPE I [JUVENILE TYPE], NOT STATED AS UNCONTROLLED), 707.14 ( ULCER OF HEEL AND MIDFOOT) and 440.23 (ATHEROSCLEROSIS OF NATIVE ARTERIES OF EXTREMITIES WITH ULCERATION).
His post-op course was remarkable for wound cultures from the OR growing coag negative Staph and Enterococcus.
Is it feasible to code 892.1 (OPEN WOUND OF FOOT EXCEPT TOE(S) ALONE, COMPLICATED) along with 041.04 (BACTERIAL INFECTION DUE TO STREPTOCOCCUS, GROUP D [ENTEROCOCCUS]) and 041.10 (BACTERIAL INFECTION DUE TO UNSPECIFIED STAPHYLOCOCCUS)
Tonyj
Patient is dx with 250.81 (DIABETES WITH OTHER SPECIFIED MANIFESTATIONS, TYPE I [JUVENILE TYPE], NOT STATED AS UNCONTROLLED), 707.14 ( ULCER OF HEEL AND MIDFOOT) and 440.23 (ATHEROSCLEROSIS OF NATIVE ARTERIES OF EXTREMITIES WITH ULCERATION).
His post-op course was remarkable for wound cultures from the OR growing coag negative Staph and Enterococcus.
Is it feasible to code 892.1 (OPEN WOUND OF FOOT EXCEPT TOE(S) ALONE, COMPLICATED) along with 041.04 (BACTERIAL INFECTION DUE TO STREPTOCOCCUS, GROUP D [ENTEROCOCCUS]) and 041.10 (BACTERIAL INFECTION DUE TO UNSPECIFIED STAPHYLOCOCCUS)
Tonyj