Orthopedic Coding Alert
Reader Questions:
Relax, There's a Dx for Stress Fracture
Published on Wed Jul 08, 2020
Question: Encounter notes indicate the patient suffered an ankle stress fracture; should I just use standard fracture ICD-10 codes? Or is there a code set for stress fracture diagnoses? Arizona Subscriber Answer: Stress fractures do have their own ICD-10 code set: M84.3- (Stress fracture). For this patient, report one of the following codes, depending on encounter specifics: Also known as …: According to ICD-10, providers might refer to stress fractures by several other terms, including: 
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