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Tactics Build Up Your Traumatic Fracture Care Dx Expertise

Published on Fri Jul 18, 2014

You’ll need to amp up your fracture coding skills under ICD-10 to ensure that emergency department visits for traumatic fractures are appropriately differentiated from patients who present to the ED with spontaneous, pathological or recurrent fractures. ICD-10 manual: Get familiar with Chapter 19:  Injury, poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes S00-T88.   You’ll turn to Chapter 13 Diseases [...]
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