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Crack Your Depressed Skull Fracture Coding Challenges With These Strategies

Published on Mon Oct 21, 2013

Confirm if a simple, compound, or comminuted fracture was repaired. You’ll be well on the way to selecting the right code for surgical elevation of depressed skull fractures if you can confirm fracture type, any debridement, and dural repair. Confirm Surgical Management for Depressed Skull Fractures For surgical management of a depressed skull fracture, your surgeon will incise the scalp [...]
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