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Reporting Ankle Injury Services

Published on Tue Feb 04, 2020

Question: A new patient reports to the orthopedist with a badly bruised left ankle. After a level-four evaluation and management (E/M) service, the orthopedist takes a two-view ankle X-ray, which comes back negative. The orthopedist then counsels the patient on treating the injury and sends him home. Final diagnosis was “L ankle sprain, tib-fib lig.” What is the correct coding [...]
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