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Feb 27th, 2015 - rhawkins

Failed Closed reduction distal radius fracture

Doctor did closed reduction of radius fracture . upon followup one week later, reductiion was lost and decision was made to take him to surgery for percutaneous pinning or ORIF. How do I code a failed closed reduction and do I append a 78 modifier to the surgery?
Thanks for the hekp



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