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Understand When Multiple X-rays Should Be Coded

Published on Wed Mar 10, 2021

Question: A patient came into the urgent care following a bicycle accident and the doctor documented that the staff “performed an X-ray for suspected clavicle fracture and examined the AC joint.” The coder initially assumed that only a clavicle X-ray was performed, but our practice manager noticed that the documentation doesn’t say it was only a clavicle X-ray. What should [...]
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