Excisional vs Non-Excisional Debridement | One Word Changes the DRG

A scalpel and a scrub brush do not code the same way, and the difference lands on the DRG. In this one I put excisional and non-excisional debridement side by side and show you why documentation decides which one you get, and what happens to the money when the record does not say what the surgeon actually did. This is one of the most queried items in CDI for a reason. It is also one of the most commonly miscoded. Inpatient medical coding is not harder than what you have been doing. It is more complex, and complexity is just a different set of guidelines. Want the full build, the practice charts and the reps that make this automatic? That is what The Blueprint is for. https://www.tashtalkscoding.com New chart walkthroughs drop every week. Subscribe so the next one finds you. Tell me in the comments: has a debridement ever come back on you in an audit? 📘 Pick up my book The Blueprint. — available on Amazon and our website https://www.amazon.com/author/tashatj... 🌐 WEBSITE: tashtalkscoding.com 📱 FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL: Instagram: @tashajonesofficial TikTok: @tashajonesofficial Facebook: facebook.com/tashajonesofficial LinkedIn: @tashajonesofficial 📚 INSIDE THE BLUEPRINT: The 10-week structured curriculum where nurses, career-changers, and aspiring coders walk into the CCS credential and PASS! While the industry says requires 2-3 years of inpatient experience. Visit tashtalkscoding.com to learn more. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ DISCLAIMER This video is for professional education only. All patient scenarios are fictional and fully de-identified. No protected health information is used, shown, or referenced. This is medical coding and documentation education. It is not medical advice, not clinical guidance, and not legal or compliance advice. Nothing here establishes a coding or billing decision for any specific encounter. TASHA JONES, LLC and The Blueprint are educational and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by AHIMA. CCS and CCA are registered trademarks of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). All content is for educational purposes only and does not guarantee certification, employment, or income results. Always verify coding guidance against the current ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I’ll see you at the top — the bottom is way too crowded. — Coach Tash 💎 Tasha Jones, CCS AHIMA-Approved ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Trainer Former Region A RAC auditor #InpatientMedicalCoding #CCSExamPrep #MedicalCodingCareer #CoachTash #TheBlueprint