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ICD-10 Update:

Closed or Open Guides Your Patellar Fracture Reporting

Published on Wed Mar 20, 2013

Look at type of open fracture, ignore morphology and laterality. Don’t let elaborate ICD-10 code descriptors confuse your patellar fracture coding. As in ICD-9, you’ll retain the focus on open and closed fractures. Submit Corresponding Code for Closed Fracture When reporting a closed fracture of the patella, you submit ICD-9 code 822.0 (Closed fracture of patella). The corresponding ICD-10 code [...]
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