Orthopedic Coding Alert

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Check Coding Smarts With This Cervical Disc Disorder Encounter

Can you make all the right moves to code this clinical scenario? Patients reporting to the orthopedist with cervical disc disorders can create coding confusion that is difficult to untangle. Once the provider figures out the patient’s condition, she’ll have to decide on a course of treatment. Getting to the bottom of these claims can be difficult, especially since they’ll [...]
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