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Coding When ED Physician Calls In A Specialist
Published on Tue Jan 20, 2015
Question: A patient presents with a badly injured left ankle. During the course of a level 5 E/M, the ED physician diagnoses a dislocation of the ankle with some diminution of the pulses in the foot. The emergency physician promptly reduces the dislocation to restore blood flow to the foot and calls in an orthopedist, who continues to treat the fracture [...]