wound

What code do you assign when the wound is not trauma, but physician won't say ulcer, however, it is due to osteomyelitis? This is on the left metatarsal.

Brenda Hoss
Coder

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  • Hi Brenda.
    A lesion that has no stated etiol and opens into an open wound lesion is by default an ulcerated lesion. Therefore you will code it as an ulcer, no etiol stated.

    Nancy Wolverton RN, CCM, HCS-D-10
    Utilization Review Specialist
    Kindred at Home
    Little Rock, Arkansas
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