Home Health ICD-9/ICD-10 Alert
READER QUESTIONS:
Don't Use These V Codes Together
Published on Tue May 24, 2005 
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Question: We admit many patients with hip fractures who have had open reductions. How do we best use V codes to reflect the care we provide to these patients? Answer: V54.13 (Aftercare for healing traumatic fracture of hip) indicates aftercare for a healing fracture and includes fractures that require surgical intervention. In this case, you would not code V58.43 (Aftercare following surgery for injury and trauma) because the V58.4 code specifically excludes the V54 orthopedic aftercare codes.
Reader questions were answered by Lisa Selman-Holman, JD, BSN, RN, CHCE, HCS-D, COS-C, consultant and principal of Selman-Holman & Associates in Denton, Texas.
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