tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2011 Issue 10

You Be the Coder: Wound Repair Qualifies for Subsequent Hospital Care

Question: An emergency physician is called to the inpatient setting by a floor nurse to care for an 84-year-old woman who was found on the floor near her bed. She suffered a 1.5 cm cut above her right eye. After a problem focused H&P, he determines the fall was simply caused by her getting tripped up by the sheets in the bed rail as she was going to the bathroom. The patient appears flustered and embarrassed but does not appear to have any confusion or focal neurological problems. The physician examines her arm and wrist and determines...

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