tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2006 Issue 10

You Be the Coder: Test Your FBR Coding Competence

Question: A piece of wood split and lodged in a construction worker's right forearm. There was a palpable foreign body on the volar aspect of the forearm. The end of the wood was visible at the entrance wound but was tightly wedged against the patient's skin.The physician sterilized the arm, prepped it with betadine and anesthetized the area with lidocaine. He then enlarged the opening of the entrance wound to free up the end of the sliver. Using a hemostat, the physician removed the wood piece entirely intact. He cleaned the wound but did not close it, and...

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