Pressure Ulcer vs Acute Skin Injury/failure

awhiteford@mhemail.orgawhiteford@mhemail.org
in Clinical & Coding

I am wondering if anyone has utilized and/or educated providers regarding documenting Acute skin injury (when definition is met) instead of pressure ulcer and what code is being used for this? Is it an injury code? This may help exclude a few pressure related ulcers that develop rapidly d/t poor tissue perfusion from the HAC and PSI Quality measures. What do providers need to capture in their note for "acute skin injury"?


Thanks,

Alicia

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