tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2000 Issue 9

Reader Question: Clinical Sharp Debridements

Question: We are an outpatient wound care center in a hospital setting. Our physicians do their billing out of their own offices, and we input the charges into the hospital system for the hospital partner to do the billing. We are doing clinical sharp debridements on a weekly basis. Should I be charging an office visit and a debridement, or should these charges be bundled together? The physician is charging for both, but I am not sure if this is the correct practice for the facility. Although our nurse is in the room with the physician during the procedure...

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