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    Wiki Is it ever okay to bill for closure with an Open Fracture?

    There has been debate on whether or not to bill for closure with an open fracture code. Is there ever a situation where we could bill for closure (simple, intermediate or complex) with an ORIF code? We handle trauma orthopedic coding, so sometimes the open fractures are traumatic in nature. Many...
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    Wiki OPEN reduction with Percutaneous pinning medial malleolus

    I don't know if I'm overthinking this too much. I'd appreciate some feedback. Ortho attempted closed reduction with perc pinning, but was unable to get the fracture to reduce and felt a periosteum was entrapped in the site. At his point, he made an incision, dissected to the medial malleolus...
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    • medial malleolus open fracture percutaneous
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