If a provider has placed sutures for a patient and the patient returns to the same provider for the suture removal, then the visit for the suture removal cannot be charged, because the removal is included in the initial laceration repair code (Post Operative/Global Period).
If a different provider placed the sutures and the patient comes to your office for the removal, however, then an office visit evaluation and management (E/M) code can be billed.
If a provider places sutures initially, more will be paid for than just the laceration repair in most cases, because more is performed.
- Current Procedural Terminology lists 99211 as the code for removal of uncomplicated facial sutures in the appendix of clinical examples.
- The code 99213 is given as the example for removal of sutures in the hand.
- For ICD-9 billing, use V58.32, encounter for removal of sutures. If a problem is associated with the removal, however, then use a complication code (such as 998.59, postoperative infection).
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