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5 Tips Lead to Stress-Free Wrist and Forearm Closed Fracture Coding

Published on Mon Sep 08, 2025

Hint: Don’t forget to consider using modifiers 54 and 57 when warranted. Most fractures treated in the emergency department (ED) are closed fractures, which means the fractured bone hasn’t broken the skin or protruded out of it. But differentiating these closed fractures from those that break the skin (known as open fractures) is just the tip of the iceberg when [...]
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