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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 [...]
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