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ICD-10:

Upgrade Your Patellar Open Fracture Reporting

Published on Wed Sep 04, 2013

First confirm type and then look to morphology and laterality. When reporting ICD-10 codes for open fractures of the patella, you may feel lost in a plethora of codes. Here is how you can narrow down your choices to pick up the most accurate diagnosis codes. Unlike ICD-9, ICD-10 offers a wide range of codes for open patellar fractures. The [...]
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