Product Description

An estimated 9-12 million patients each year in the United States suffer from chronic wounds at a treatment cost of more than $25 billion - and with an aging population; these numbers are expected to increase year by year. Plastic surgeons play an integral role in the care of these patients, not only in the surgical management of acute and chronic wounds, but also as they lend their expertise to the medical management of these difficult problems.

A majority of these patients are being treated in specialized wound-care centers while others are treated in physician's offices or the hospital setting. It's crucial to understand both the ICD-10 designations for these wounds and also the proper CPT coding for the procedures to treat them.

Product Code: CPT-2016-SEP