Surgery:
Go Beyond Open/Closed Question on Vertebral Fx Fixes
Published on Thu Jan 04, 2024
Anatomy, grafting are also issues when coding these repairs. When a patient with a vertebral fracture is evaluated by the neurosurgeon, surgery may be recommended. Coding for that surgery will press the coder to make a few decisions. Such as? How the surgeon decided whether the patient needed surgery, whether the surgery was open or closed, and in what anatomical [...]