Orthopedic Coding Alert

ICD-10:

Get Ready for Thousands of Ortho Changes Planned for ICD-10-CM 2017

You’ll find brand new codes, such as these for Salter-Harris fractures. The CDC has posted a preliminary list of ICD-10-CM changes for October 1 (aka ICD-10-CM 2017), and just in case you don’t want to sort through about 2,000 new codes, we will be narrowing down the main areas orthopedic coders need to know. “The new codes are M and [...]
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