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Follow These 4 Steps to Fix Neck of Femur Fracture Coding

Published on Tue Jan 15, 2013

Top tip: Teach providers to document side and type to avoid ‘unspecified’. When your anesthesia provider is involved in a case to repair a closed femur neck fracture, you currently have only one code option for an unspecified fracture: 820.8 (Fracture of unspecified part of neck of femur, closed). You’ll still have a category for unspecified fractures when ICD-10 becomes [...]
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