tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2005 Issue 4

Iron Out Wrinkles in Your Laceration

Know when - and when not - to add wound lengths Need to fine-tune your skills at reporting laceration treatment in the ED? See if you can correctly code these three challenging scenarios and home in on your coding trouble spots. Scenario #1: A patient presents to the emergency department (ED) with a 1.5-cm laceration of the eyebrow, and the physician performs an intermediate repair. The patient also has a 3.6-cm forehead laceration that requires a simple repair. Should you add these two wound lengths together and then code the intermediate repair, or does each get...

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