tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2021 Issue Q2

You Be the Coder: Can You Code This Laceration Encounter?

Question: A 36-year-old patient with diabetes presented to the ED noting that she had dropped a knife on her right pinky toe, cutting the top of her toe while chopping carrots. She waited two days before coming into the ED. The physician evaluated her swollen, red, and painful toe, which had pus coming from it. The patient did not sustain damage to her toenail, and there was no foreign body in the wound. The ED physician took a culture of the laceration, and the result from the lab came back as a staph infection. Which ICD-10 codes should we...

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