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Step Up Your Heel Bone Fracture Coding Skills

Published on Mon Jan 21, 2013

Best bet: Confirm closed, open, or percutaneous treatment. Calcaneal fractures (heel bone fractures) are the most common tarsal fractures and you may be used to coding them a certain way -- but if you’re not following the advice below, you could be compounding errors and leaving deserved pay on the table for these services. Omit Casting with Closed Fracture Treatment [...]
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