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Coding Clinic for CDI:Reassessing debridement documentation

by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS

The AHA’s Coding Clinic for ICD- 10-CM/PCS, Third Quarter 2015, opens with a discussion of the differences between excisional and non-excisional debridement—diagnoses with a long history of causing coding and clinical documentation confusion. The new code set hasn’t made it any easier, as this edition of Coding Clinic includes eight questions on the matter on pp. 3–8, and an additional question regarding non-excisional debridement of cranial wound with removal and replacement of hardware.

 

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