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Can You Make All the Right Coding Moves on This Fx Encounter?

Published on Thu Feb 03, 2022

Question: Notes indicate that the surgeon performed an outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) service for a patient that included a three-view femur X-ray. The final diagnosis was “femoral Fx, proximal end, neck.” Notes on the E/M service indicate that it lasted 52 minutes. Then the surgeon performed closed treatment of a femoral fracture, proximal end, neck without manipulation. How should [...]
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