• 1 New Crop of ICD-9 Codes Makes Debut: Muscle Weakness, Difficulty Walking Diagnoses Redefined

• 2 Same-Practice Orthopedists: Same Surgeon

• 3 Global Periods XXX and 000 Are Not Synonymous

• 4 Reader Questions: Pulley Reconstruction? See the 26500 Series

• 5 Reader Questions: Follow Five Rules for Dermabond Repairs

• 6 Reader Questions: Apply 29807 to SLAP Lesions Only

• 7 Reader Questions: Signify Separate Interspaces With -59

• 8 Reader Questions: Append -59 for Two Fluoros

• 9 Reader Questions: Even Observation Patients Require H&P

• 10 Reader Questions: 76066 Signals Joint Survey

• 11 You Be the Coder: Which Modifier Describes Assisted Surgery?