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Puzzle Out This Calcaneal Fracture Situation

Published on Mon May 18, 2020

Question: The patient fractured his calcaneus into three places. The podiatrist took the patient into surgery and tried to align the bone but couldn’t. The podiatrist ended up having to make a surgical incision and place a plate and screw across the fracture segments to realign and fixate the bone segments. Which CPT® code should I report for this procedure? [...]
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