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Prepare Your Practice To Be Precise For Pathologic Fracture Coding

Published on Tue Apr 19, 2016

Look for the site, cause, and location of the pathologic fracture. When coding a pathologic fracture, you can submit more than one ICD-10-CM diagnosis code. You should look for details in the clinical note and list out the conditions diagnosed. You should try and be specific for the cause or underlying condition of the pathologic fracture. Here is a coding [...]
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