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What type of documentation regarding the patient’s history, examination, and diagnosis will verify the medical necessity of your chosen procedure above?
burn care code 16000
The documentation regarding the
patient history,physical examination and the diagnosis is based on
the CPT Coding.
CPT Code 16000 -is for the innitial treatment,first degree
burn,when no morethan local treament is required. this is to make
sure the first degree burn,that is superficial burn of the
outermost layer of the skin or epidermis.And also the percentage of
the burns ,body surface area also examined for the diagnosis of the
degree of burns.
usually body surface area is calculated based on the Rule of nine
formula.
next regarding the diagnosis part made by the ICD-9 CM code can be
found in INJURY AND POISONING section 940-949.
this procedure of coding helps the physician to evaluate and avoid
the errors in providing the care to the pateint and follow
ups.
inaddition to the burn codes E-Codes describes the type of the
injury like is it due to fire ,hot liquid or accident etc.