BASIC ICD-9-CM

Basic ICD-9-CM Coding WorkshopsJune 2013Irene Mueller. E CODES. ... A patient was admitted with a fracture of the left femur shaft, suffered when he stepped backwards and fell from the top of the stairs during a fight. ... The proximal cause was the MVA, but the code for tornado is sequenced first because a cataclysmic event takes precedence . ................
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