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Wiki CR Perc Pinning Toe
- Thread starter jmkitchen
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nrichard
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28515
Closed treatement fx, phalanx or phalanges, other than great toe, with manipulation each
Closed treatement fx, phalanx or phalanges, other than great toe, with manipulation each
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nrichard
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Sorry this was were 3M was leading me and I read the descriptor wrong.
look at 28496 very closely, it's for the great toe, phalanx or phalanges.
"percutaneous skeletal fixation of fracture great toe, phalanx or phalanges, with manipulation".
look at 28496 very closely, it's for the great toe, phalanx or phalanges.
"percutaneous skeletal fixation of fracture great toe, phalanx or phalanges, with manipulation".
nrichard
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apparently due to my first response, I'm having a "dense" day too!
Yup! Looked at that one too, but this is how my EncoderPro describes this code:
The physician treats a fracture of the big toe involving one or both of the bones without open surgery but with pin fixation through the skin and manipulation of the fractures.
The physician treats a fracture of the big toe involving one or both of the bones without open surgery but with pin fixation through the skin and manipulation of the fractures.
nrichard
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My take on Encoder just from seeing other posts on this forum, is that it's not alway correct. My take would be to go w/ CPT. I have 3M and look where that led me? Otherwise, I'd have to say use the unlisted code (yuck, no one wants that) but I really do feel CPT is correct.