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Emergency Department Coding:

Take Traumatic Fracture Diagnoses to the 7th Character

Published on Fri May 29, 2026

Ensure a complete Dx to aid future patient care. Patients present to the emergency department (ED) often with traumatic fractures, but that doesn’t necessarily mean choosing ICD-10-CM codes for fractures is easy. Why? Fractures are only a part of the diagnosis coding challenge for ED coders, who have to be able to code any injury that a patient presents with. [...]
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