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Bone Up on Your Bimalleolar Fracture Coding Skills

Published on Tue Jan 25, 2022

Question: A patient experienced a hard fall in their home and presented to the emergency department (ED) with severe right ankle pain. The radiologist captured three views of the patient’s right leg and diagnosed them with a displaced closed lateral and medial malleoli ankle fracture. What ICD-10-CM codes do I need to assign to the report? New Hampshire Subscriber Answer: [...]
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