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CharlieWard

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on: Jun 27, 2018
If the medical record documentation does not specify that a fracture is pathologic, spontaneous, or due to an underlying bone disease, the coder is required to assign a traumatic fracture code.
 
 Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

It is possible to have a closed fracture that requires open treatment.
 
 Indicate whether the statement is true or false


Tonny

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Reply #1 on: Jun 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

True

Answer to Question 2

True


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