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Pay Attention to External Cause Guidelines in This Reduction Encounter

Published on Thu Nov 12, 2020

Question: One of our pediatricians recently performed a reduction of a traumatic fracture in our office. I want to bill an evaluation and management (E/M) service with the reduction code using the fracture diagnosis code, but should I also include an external cause code? If so, should I attach it to the E/M or the reduction procedure code? Michigan Subscriber [...]
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