Help on Fracture Medical Coding

Help on Fracture Medical Coding
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Q: I am looking for help in fracture coding. Is there a good webinar? Suggestions?

A: Well, first of all, I want you to know we’ve talked a lot about fractures because quite honestly, I just like talking about fractures. So, there are some YouTube videos already out there with comments about coding for fractures in ICD-9 and ICD-10 and you can find those on our YouTube channel MedicalCodingCert. [Ed. Note: http://youtube.com/MedicalCodingCert.]

But now, if it’s something that you’re struggling with and you want a more broad webinar, absolutely we can do that for you. But this is really a broad question so I thought let’s break it down, let’s talk about the terms that you’re going to see often and those key terms are going to be with the fractures and the treatments that are involved. If you don’t know what the medical abbreviation for fracture is, it’s “Fx” and the medical abbreviation for treatment is “Tx.”

The first term that you want to be aware of is open, an open fracture. What that means is bone is sticking out of the wound and that it broke through the skin. This doesn’t mean that the bone has to be exposed the whole time because sometimes the bone will pop out and then go back in, which is also additionally a very bad thing because it allows you to introduce outside organisms and infection into the bone, and if you didn’t know, your bones help produce blood cells, the bone marrow does, and if you get an infection in a part of your body, like the blood, it goes throughout the whole body because your blood goes throughout your whole body.

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