Dog bite from Pit bull

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In this case, you'd code the injury (open wound, or contusion, depending whether the skin was broken). Then you add the E code for the dog bite and if you wish the location. There is no other description or available needed to indicate the breed of the dog, uncooperative owner, etc. Try not to read too much into the drama of the event. You code only the injury and the cause.

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Pam Brooks, CPC, COC

Coding Manager

Wentworth-Douglass Hospital

Dover, NH 03820

Pam.Brooks@aapcca.org

AAPCCA Board of Directors (Region 1--ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY)

Dog bite from Pit bull