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Breakdown Traumatic Fracture Coding With These 5 Rules

Published on Fri Jul 02, 2021

Tip: Remember that you may need a seventh character on your ICD-10-CM code. You know that a fracture isn’t just a fracture: The injury may be traumatic, open or closed, displaced or not displaced. Use these five rules when you’re combing a patient’s medical documentation so you can know which specific information to note when coding a traumatic fracture. Rule [...]
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