tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 8

ICD-10 Update: Crack Your Patellar Fracture Diagnosis Challenges

One key factor could make or break your dx code choice accuracy.  When your physician treats outpatient knee injuries, you could be befuddled by the elaborate ICD-10 code descriptors for patellar fractures.  As in ICD-9, if you’re zeroing in on whether the fracture is closed or open, you’ll land the right code every time. Submit Corresponding Code for Closed Fracture When reporting a closed fracture of the patella, you submit ICD-9 code 822.0 (Closed fracture of patella). The corresponding ICD-10 code is S82.009A (Unspecified fracture of unspecified patella, initial encounter for closed fracture)...

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