Not only is wound coding and documentation a constant source of confusion, but it also attracts intense scrutiny from auditors, with severe financial penalties for mistakes. And it’s only gotten more challenging with the increased specificity required in ICD-10 and the OASIS-E form. Eliminate the confusion and your risk for ADRs and denials with the ICD-10-CM Wound Coding & OASIS Field Guide.
The ICD-10-CM Wound Coding & OASIS Field Guide, 2025 is your on-the-go reference to choose the right ICD-10 code and complete the OASIS for the most common home health wounds. It is conveniently separated into chapters devoted to each type of wound commonly seen in home health, including pressure, arterial, stasis and diabetic ulcers, and surgical, trauma and complicated wounds.
Each chapter contains official coding and OASIS wound guidance, as well as specific strategies and wound photographs to help guide you towards accurate code selection and OASIS answers. You won’t find a more detailed, real-life instruction wound book than this on the market!
The ICD-10-CM Wound Coding & OASIS Field Guide, 2025 includes:
- UPDATED! Learn what is needed in the documentation in order to determine the severity of non-pressure ulcers
- UPDATED! Clarification on how to properly code a patient with both diabetes and unspecified PVD or “peripheral angiopathy”
- UPDATED! Guidance on how to accurately code for diabetic peripheral angiopathy
- UPDATED! Get the latest Coding and OASIS guidance on how to code and complete the OASIS for surgical wounds, and pressure and stasis ulcers covered with skin vs. muscle grafts
- UPDATED! OASIS-E guidance so you can accurately complete the OASIS wound items
- Guidance on the coding of trauma wounds and lacerations in patients with diabetes
- Scenarios reflecting how to best manage the coding of wounds within PDGM, including the assignment of Z48.0- codes as primary
- Vital ICD-10 coding principles, official OASIS guidance, expert tips, helpful scenarios and important tools organized by type of wound, allowing you to quickly find the answers you need
- Color photographs of each type of wound to help guide assessment and coding
- A chapter devoted to wound documentation discusses what Medicare requires to justify home health reimbursement for wound care, and what you need to do to ensure that your coding and OASIS answers are fully supported
Inaccurate wound coding will leave your agency open to auditor scrutiny, resulting in ADRs and denials. Don’t take that risk. Order your ICD-10-CM Wound Coding & OASIS Field Guide, 2025. today.
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