reply to: For this discussion, I have chosen the Integumentary System (10021-19499) with the subsection guidelines of debridement. Wound debridements (11042-11047) take into consideration the depth of the wound and the amount of tissue removed. For a single wound, the deepest measurement of tissue removed is coded, whereas with multiple wounds, a sum of the wounds of the same depth is used. An example would be a patient having a debridement of subcutaneous tissue of a wound that is 15 sq cm would be coded as 11042, as this wound is less than 20 sq cm.
[Answered]: reply to: For this discussion, I have chosen the…
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