Archive for The Day of June 12th, 2007

Archive for the Day of June 12th, 2007

Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of June 12th, 2007.

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E/M and Repair on Laceration Claims

Let’s say an otherwise healthy man reports to the ED with lacerated index and middle fingers on the palmar surface, but there is no significant bleeding. The patient cut himself on a table saw. There is a 1.5cm jagged laceration with protruding fat located on the pad of the distal phalanx of both fingers. The physician uses Marcaine to apply digital blocks to both fingers, explores the wounds and finds no foreign bodies, and then closes the wounds. This encounter should be coded with a pair of E codes, in order to identify the cause of injury. Report this claim as follows: Report 12002 for the wound closure (this is

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