Wiki Single fracture extending through 2 anatomic sites

[lrickert]

Patient has a closed fracture that extends from the tibial shaft through the tibial pilon. Is it wrong to code for both the tibial shaft reduction and the pilon reduction? The fracture spans 2 separate anatomic sites, but it is 1 continuous fracture. Is there any documentation on this? Thank you for any insight you may provide.

 

[daedolos]

I would say you could only code for one reduction because it's one fracture unless he really did do two separate reductions.

https://www.supercoder.com/coding-n...losed-reduction-for-multiple-fracture-article

http://static.aapc.com/a3c7c3fe-6fa...a480/ca69e66e-6277-4359-8ad5-6355fa46b164.pdf

Peace
@_*
Hope this helps.