Surgical Repair: 13131: Layers Plus Complexity Could Be Key to Earning $260

Dig deeper to find the key to 'simple,' 'intermediate,' and 'complex' closures.

Getting the wrong repair code could cost your practice plenty -- for instance, you'd lose $260 for a 2.5 cm complex foot wound closure wrongly billed as a simple foot repair. And considering that some procedures include simple closure but allow you to separately bill for complex closure, you [...]

- Published on 2011-08-10