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Fasciotomy Closure
Date: Dec 15, 2020
Question:
Doctor performs a four compartment fasciotomy through two incisions and is left open. A few days later the incisions are closed. We are billing 13160 for the closure. However, since there are two incisions, would you bill with two units? Or since it was one surgery would you bill as one unit? What if the surgery extends multiple body areas such as an ax-fem-fem? Would you bill one unit as it was one surgery or multiple units as it was multiple body areas?
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