twosmek
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I have a continuing problem where a patient has a fracture, closed treatment is done. Patient returns for follow up and ends up needing another surgery because there is a loss of reduction of the fracture. My questions is how do you code this. Do you just use the after care code. do you recode the fracture. Example for a distal radius fracture that is in a global for fracture care and is requiring additional procedures due to a loss of reduction, do you code it as: V54.12 or 813.42? or both? Any ideas?