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Oct 30th, 2014 - happy 12 

fluid drainage

A patient had a procedure (44604), suture of large intestine, patient has Medicare. She is now in rehab and the surgeon was asked to see the patient because of serosanguineous drainage from her abdominal wound (11 days post op). He removed 3 staples from the abdominal wound, inserted a Q-tip into the deep subcutaneous tissue and was able to drain approximately 50 cc of fluid. The fluid is not infected. He put down to bill and I & D, but he didn't do an incision. What code should I use, or is this not billable, post-op complication.
Thank you.



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