DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 8 (August)

Transition to ICD-10: Select 7th characters based on injury type, sequence of care

One ICD-10 rule you’ll need to get familiar with early on is the role of 7th character selection and how it will affect both your injury and fracture coding. 7th characters help you report both the stage of treatment and, in the case of fractures, severity of the fracture and status of the healing process. 

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