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7-Character Dx Codes for Skull Fractures
Published on Thu Jan 06, 2022
Question: Encounter notes indicate that a patient suffered a fracture of the right medial orbital wall. What is the correct ICD-10 code for this injury? Ohio Subscriber Answer: You’ll have to go all the way to the seventh character to choose the most accurate ICD-10 code for this patient. First, choose S02.831- (Fracture of medial orbital wall, right side) as [...]