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CPT Knowledgebase - Dec 12, 2012
Our wound care clinic documented the following: (1) Nonselective mechanical debridement of wound bed to remove dermal level slough with normal saline moistened gauze; and (2) Chemical cautery of hypergranular tissue at 12 and 6 oclock using one silver nitrate stick. CPT codes 97602 and 17250 were reported. Please advise the correct reporting of the use of silver nitrate sticks on the hypergranular tissue?
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