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2 Scenarios Untangle Your Pathologic/Traumatic Fracture Code Diagnoses

Published on Wed Sep 16, 2015

Discover this new tool to help you ‘build’ a traumatic fracture code. If you’re panicking about the upcoming ICD-10 implementation date and coding fracture codes, you’re not alone. Simplify these complicated seven character codes by breaking them down into pathologic and traumatic fractures. Perfect Your Pathologic Fractures With Scenario 1 Scenario 1: My orthopedic provider saw a 72 year old [...]
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