ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert
Reader Question:
Treatment Versus Reduction
Published on Sun Apr 01, 2001
Question: Are the terms closed reduction and closed treatment synonymous? How could you say you treated a fracture without some type of manipulation?
Cheryl Starner
Kansas City, Mo.
Answer: Most likely they are the same. However, for clarity, physicians should use the more correct term of closed reduction. If there is a difference between the two, it would be that a fracture that does not require reduction, and is simply casted, might be closed treatment, while a displaced or angulated fracture that is reduced and then casted may be closed reduction. Closed means that no incision was made in the skin to treat the injury.
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