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ICD-10 Update:

Levels guide your codes for spinal lesions accompanying closed cervical fractures

Published on Fri Aug 02, 2013

In ICD-10, you look for individual codes for fracture and spinal injury. You need to exercise care when reporting cervical fractures with spinal cord lesions. Whereas ICD-9 has a single code for the two together, you may miss out a code in ICD-10 unless you know that you can report for both the fracture as well as the spinal lesion. [...]
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