tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2017 Issue 9

Reader Question: Consider 28190 for Foot FBR

Question: A 12-year-old male patient presented with complaints of a swollen foot. He had been running barefoot at a picnic three days earlier, but didn’t experience any discomfort until yesterday, when his foot “started hurting really bad.” He reported a six out of 10 on the pain scale. Our physician noticed that the patient’s heel was swollen and leaking pus. Upon examination, the doctor reported finding a foreign body (FB) in the patient’s heel; notes indicated it was most likely a wood splinter. The clinician was unable to remove the FB with only tweezers...

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