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2017 | PODIATRY MANAGEMENT 71a diabetic , it is considered a diabetic foot ulcer , and therefore should be coded using an L97- code. This is true even if arterial disease and/or pressure played a role in the develop-ment of this Coding After starting a code for a diabet-ic foot ulcer with L97-, we have to choose a 4th character of either 4 or 5 with the options being (non-pressure chronic ulcer of heel and midfoot) or (non-pressure chronic ulcer of other part of foot ). The word and is in the description of the codes. This brings us to an important ICD-10 lesson and an-other example of it sometimes being its own language. Whenever the word and is used in ICD-10 code descriptions, it actually means and/or . Therefore, if you use an code, it does not imply that the pa-tient has two ulcers, one involving the heel and one involving the mid- foot .

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