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Get Your Modifiers Right on 'Vacation' Injury

Published on Fri Jun 07, 2019

Question: I just started coding for an orthopedic practice in a mountainous area, and we get our share of vacationing patients with injuries. This one is my first, and I want to get it just right. Notes indicate that a patient reported to the orthopedist with a badly injured right ankle sustained in a mountain bike accident; he hit a [...]
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