tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2010 Issue 6

Break Fact, Fiction Apart on Your Fracture Care Claims

The break of a bone does not always mean a fracture code.A patient presents to the ED with a broken bone. The physician confirms the fracture, treats the patient and sends him home. This is automatically a fracture care claim ... right?Wrong: Eliminate misconceptions about your ED physician's fracture care treatment with the following fact or fiction challenge.Fact or Fiction? Fractured Bone = Fracture CareFiction. Patients with broken bones don't always receive reportable fracture treatment in the ED, confirms Yvonne P. Bouvier, CPC, CEDC, senior coding analyst atBill Dunbar and Associates, LLC in Indianapolis.The ED physician...

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