Tips & Expertise: Hand Surgery Coding in PCS

Q:  How do you code a “completion amputation”, where a traumatic amputation of the finger is cut back further and then closed up?A:  It depends on how much tissue was removed, at what level, and how it’s documented. If a rongeur was used to just smooth off the bone...

Coding Hand Surgeries in ICD-10-PCS

Additional Tips & Expertise – Free Haugen Academy MicroLearning Our hands are incredibly intricate. Hand surgeries can be complex and coding these in ICD-10-PCS can be challenging. This brief presentation contains a few tips for coding these complex cases....

Coding Hand Surgeries in CPT

Digging Into HIM & Coding Blog Our hands may the the body part we most take for granted relative to their importance to our existence and our day-to-day activities. They are amazingly intricate and comprised of many different body systems and incur injuries and...

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