Instructor’s Guide for ICD-9-CM Diagnostic Coding and ...

Then list the appropriate code, such as 5261, limited extension of the knee, 10 percent, creating the code 5003-5261. Exception: If other joints affected by arthritis are compensably evaluated in the same rating, use only the code appropriate to these particular joints which support the assigned evaluation and omit the modifying 5003. b. ................
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