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Wiki Re-suturing J-tube

kandigrl79

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Question,
If a patient presents to the ER because some of the sutures holding her J-tube have come out and the ER physician re-sutures the J-tube back to the skin, should I code a simple (12001-12007) repair code? If not, how would you code this??

Thanks for any and all help you can give...
 
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