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Fractures:

Heal the Cracks in Your Calcaneal Fracture Coding

Published on Mon Apr 01, 2013

Is treatment closed, open, or percutaneous? The answer can affect your code choice. 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 [...]
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