wound care

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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@...