Lacerations are a common occurrence in the ED and knowing the in’s and out’s of medical billing for these types of claims will make filing each and every single one of them a breeze. For example if you have a patient that presents who was using a table saw on the job and lacerated index and middle fingers on the palmar surface, but there is no significant bleeding and he is otherwise healthy. How would you report this? On further examination the physician finds on the pad of the distal phalanx of both involved fingers is a 1.5-cm laceration that is jagged with protruding fat. The notes read that the …