DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2015 Issue 8 (August)

ICD-10 tip of the week: Code this fracture 7th character case for new patient, healing fracture

Orthopedic coders will need to learn the rules for ICD-10 seventh character coding to be able to keep their fracture and musculoskeletal injury claims going out the door once the code set goes live. To help you with that, OCPS is devoting tips of the week for the month of August to seventh character scenarios.
 
 

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