tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2014 Issue 8

ICD-10: Tactics Build Up Your Traumatic Fracture Care Dx Expertise

You’ll need to amp up your fracture coding skills under ICD-10 to ensure that emergency department visits for traumatic fractures are appropriately differentiated from patients who present to the ED with spontaneous, pathological or recurrent fractures. ICD-10 manual: Get familiar with Chapter 19:  Injury, poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes S00-T88.   You’ll turn to Chapter 13 Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue (M00---M99) for spontaneous or recurrent fractures , says Caral Edelberg, CPC, CPMA, CAC, CCS-P, CHC, Chief Executive Officer of Edelberg Compliance Associates.   Learn From This  Traumatic Fracture Example...

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