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Wiki new injury rebeaking the right distal humerous over an healed fracture with a metal

Thread starter kayeannemoreno
Start date Feb 28, 2019

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kayeannemoreno

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Feb 28, 2019

It's Risk adjustment, so I'm coding an acute fracture of the right distal humerus: S42.201a. But the x-ray shows a surgical plate with screws so Should I code a S42.201D? or is there a better code of rebreaking the same bone at the site of an old fracture?

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