Neurosurgery Coding Alert

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3 Tips Sharpen Your Depressed Skull Fracture Repair Smarts

Hint: Turn to 62000 for simple fractures. You read in the op report that your neurosurgeon performed surgical repair of a depressed skull fracture in a patient with an open fracture of the skull. But, if you don’t check the medical documentation carefully to see what type of fracture the surgeon repaired and whether he performed debridement or dural repair, [...]
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