Guest guest Posted February 20, 2003 Report Share Posted February 20, 2003 You are using the best codes. However.... when 'the wound is essentially clean and little to no debridement is necessary... " you have to be careful. Remember, 97601 specifically states " selective debridement " which means that if you are not performing this active service for 8 min or more, you can not bill this code. In that case, if you are only changing bandages, consulting, etc. you can not bill for your time. In a message dated 2/19/2003 5:23:19 PM Central Standard Time, bhardy@... writes: > We have a modest sized wound care center that is currently using PT eval, > re-eval and selective debridement codes for wound care. Are there other > codes people are using to more accurately describe services when the wound > is essentially clean and little to no debridement is necessary? Are there > other complementary codes for this type of situation or just stick with the > standard debridement codes? > Ellen R. Strunk, PT, GCS Birmingham, AL erstrunk@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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