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Pressure Ulcer Staging
“I am using for example a pressure ulcer right forefoot, 5th mpj area stage 1 as L89.811, but my biller is telling me it is an invalid code for pressure ulcer of MPJ stage 1. Any insight on how I should go forward since my understanding that a fourth character 6 is heel and 8 is other site of foot and 9 is unspecified site which is not recommended to use?”
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New Civil Rights Report Warns That Language Barriers Remain Life Threatening
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has published a sweeping new report on language access for limited English proficient (LEP) individuals that is timely and highly consequential.
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FDA Recalls
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Surgical Coding Revisional Surgery
I have a patient who had a chevron bunionectomy 10 years ago. The bunion has returned and the head is facing lateral. My plan is to perform a Lapidus procedure to reduce the first intermetatarsal angle and a rotational 1st metatarsal head osteotomy to align the articular surface (basically an Austin with a medial based wedge removed from the dorsal osteotomy to rotate the head slightly medial).
How would you recommend I code this (ICD-10 and CPT codes)? Can I use CPT 29297 and CPT 29296? I’ve also considered CPT 28740 with CPT 29296.
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