A lot of facilities per policy or with physician's orders have dressings on the peg sites. This does not automatically mean that it is a surgical wound. Fresh sites may be a surgical wound. I would use my assessment skills to determine when healing has occurred and then no longer code it as a surgical wound.
Brenda W. Chance, RN, RAC-C MDS Coordinator CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tube site-surg. wound? We have a few residents with g-tubes who recieve bacitracin with a dressing to site. For how long should we be coding them as a surgical site? As long as there's a need for a dressing? As long as they're on medicare? Indefinitely? Thanx in advance Jennifer RN BSN MDS Coordinator __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree /---------------------------------------------------------- The Case Mix Discussion Group is a free service of the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators "Committed to the Assessment Professional" Be sure to visit the AANAC website. Accurate answers to your questions posted to NAC News and FAQs. For more info visit us at http://www.aanac.org -----------------------------------------------------------/ /---------------------------------------------------------- The Case Mix Discussion Group is a free service of the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators "Committed to the Assessment Professional" Be sure to visit the AANAC website. Accurate answers to your questions posted to NAC News and FAQs. For more info visit us at http://www.aanac.org -----------------------------------------------------------/
