traumatic evisceration
I have a question for all of you with trauma experience. I am watching closely to see what the coders are going to do with a 3 yr with a traumatic abdominal contents evisceration and is hospitalized as they stage the repair and recreation of his abd wall. The interim coding seems stalled and since I know they are probably using the computer, I am curious where this will head. Most of the ICD 9 codes for evisceration are looking for a prior surgery as the cause. What do you all think?