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== Additional Info ==
== Additional Info ==
*This code is for a nontraumatic (pathologic) fracture of any vertebrae that is NOT due to neoplasm or osteoporosis.
*This code is for a nontraumatic (pathologic) fracture of any vertebrae that is NOT due to neoplasm or osteoporosis.
*It ''includes'', but is not limited to, vertebral compression fracture (also called a wedge fracture because of its appearance on the lateral X-ray of the chest) that, again, isn't due to neoplasm or osteoporosis.
*It ''includes'', but is not limited to, vertebral compression fracture (also called a wedge fracture because of its appearance on the lateral X-ray of the chest) that, again, isn't due to neoplasm or osteoporosis.
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== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
*It may also help you to see '''[[Coding fractures in ICD10]]'''
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*BUT IN PARTICULAR, note that there are other codes for nontraumatic (pathologic) fractures not due to neoplasm or osteoporosis:
 
**[[Femur or pelvis, nontraumatic fracture NOS]]
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**[[Vertebra, nontraumatic fracture NOS]] -- this includes vertebral compression/wedge fractures not due to neoplasm or osteoporosis.
**[[Bone NOS, nontraumatic fracture NOS]]


== Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==
== Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==


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== Related CCI Codes ==
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