Reader Question: Fix the Fracture Codes Right with 18 Seventh Character options
Inpatient Facility Coding & Compliance Alert
Reader Question:
Fix the Fracture Codes Right with 18 Seventh Character options
Published on Mon Oct 12, 2015
Question: The code M84.551A has a seventh character of A. Another code S82.852K has a seventh character of K. How do we figure out the difference? [...]
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