Wiki Help please

[alk@APS]

Filling in for Ortho coder and need help with this CPT and ICD-9

PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS:
Displaced and comminuted intra-articular fracture, left distal radius and ulnar
styloid.

He does ORIF on the distal radius and on the ulnar styloid

 

[j-fowler57]

Need more info for the procedure. How many fragments he removed from the inta-articular, if it was an open or percutaneous fixation with debridement or without etc. ?
Janice

 

[lekishabryant@rocketmail.com]

For the Diagnoses you should look at 813.40-813.44/