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== Additional Info ==
== Additional Info ==
{{ICD10 Fracture}}
*This code, as indicated, is for the presence of osteoporosis without a NEW pathologic fracture. 
 
**If there are OLD pathologic fractures, but no new ones, then this is a correct code to use. 
{{Discuss | who=Allan | If a patient has had several ''previous'' osteoporotic pathological fractures that have healed as well as they will, but doesn't currently have a new fracture, is there a way to code those previous fractures? The old fractures can cause significant disability, so would we want to know? }}
*Thus it will almost always be a [[Comorbid Diagnosis]]


== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
{{ICD10 Fracture}}
*[[Vitamin D deficiency]]
*[[Vitamin D deficiency]]
*[[Anorexia (poor appetite)]]
*[[Anorexia (poor appetite)]]
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