AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1999 Fourth Quarter

Correction

In Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 1999, p.15, advice was given not to assign an ICD-9-CM procedure code for the application of Dermabond. However, HCFA has agreed to consider a proposal to broaden the code title for code 86.59, Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue of other sites, to include tissue adhesives (e.g., Dermabond) at the November 1999 Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee meeting. Therefore, the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) revisited this issue and advises the assignment of code 86.59, for the application of tissue adhesives. Please note the current advice supersedes information previously published...

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