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Wiki Sprains or Strains

Thread starter OOSMCcoding
Start date Sep 22, 2015

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OOSMCcoding

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Sep 22, 2015

Having recently attended ICD-10 Boot Camp, in addition to identifying the ligament and/or tendon or muscle in the documentation, severity grading of I, II or III was to be included.
Why is that when it plays no bearing on selecting a diagnosis code, unlike the fracture classifications?

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