tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2008 Issue 9

You Be the Coder: ICD-9 and CPT Link Closely for Burns

Question: In the emergency department (ED), our surgeon saw a 9-year-old girl with blistering burns to the left side of her body. After a level-four E/M, the ED physician treats the child for partial-thickness burns on her entire left arm and left leg. The child had no third-degree burns. How should we code this scenario? Tennessee SubscriberAnswer: Because your surgeon provided a separate E/M and then treated the patient's burns, you can report a pair of CPT codes: - 16030 (Dressings and/or debridement of partial-thickness burns, initial or subsequent; large [e.g., more than one extremity, or greater than...

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