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820.03 Counterpart Demonstrates ICD-10's Colossal Documentation Requirements

Published on Tue May 03, 2011

Right or left, initial or subsequent, displaced or nondisplaced -- gather it all for new codes. If you want a glimpse of diagnoses that will have expanded coding options under ICD-10, just take a look at codes related to fractures. As an example, here's a closer look at the codes that will replace 820.03 for a closed fracture of the base of the femur neck when ICD-10 goes into effect in 2013. ICD-9: Under ICD-9, you may use 820.03 (Fracture of neck of femur; transcervical fracture, closed; base of neck). ICD-10 changes: General Equivalency Mappings (GEMs) point you to the following as rough replacements for 820.03: S72.043A, Displaced fracture of base of neck of unspecified femur, initial encounter for closed fracture S72.046A, Nondisplaced fracture of base of neck of unspecified femur, initial encounter for closed fracture. The two main distinctions between ICD-9 and ICD-10 are ICD-10's (1) use of "displaced" [...]
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