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Wiki Osteotomy for repair of metacarpal malunion

Thread starter coderguy1939
Start date Dec 4, 2008

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coderguy1939

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Dec 4, 2008

Doctor did a wedge osteotomy to correct mature malunion of a metacarpal shaft fracture. There is no specific code for repair of a metacarpal malunion, only for nonunion. I'm looking at 26565. Anyone approach this differently? Thanks.

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