‘Marathon’ effort to refine end-of-life wound coding runs on

05/23/25 at 03:00 AM

‘Marathon’ effort to refine end-of-life wound coding runs on 
McKnights Long-Term Care News; by Kimberly Marselas; 5/28/25 
Two key wound care groups are finalizing a proposal for new codes that would help skilled nursing providers avoid newly created diagnoses gaps for end-of-life skin breakdown that could lead to missed reimbursement and potential liability risks. The push comes a year and a half after nursing homes won the right to stop coding wounds that occur as part of dying as pressure injuries, which can hurt their quality ratings. But they also lost any way to code or acknowledge treatment of such skin failure in the Minimum Data Set. ...

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