Case Study Corner:
Can You Code This Repeat Nursemaid’s Elbow Encounter?
Published on Tue Apr 06, 2021
Hint: Don’t code these similar encounters the same way twice. Your pediatrician may refer to it as a radial head dislocation. They may even use a more clinical term: a subluxation. But for most of us, the injury is more commonly known as nursemaid’s elbow, so called because the injury occurs “when a child is pulled up too hard by [...]