Bone, disorder of bone continuity NOS: Difference between revisions

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== Additional Info ==

~~incl~~ nontraumatic fracture, ~~malunion~~, ~~nonunion~~

*This is a wastebasket code for bone discontinuity problems that are not coded anywhere else. They include:

**Malunion or nonunion of a bone -- these refer to problems with a bone failing to repair itself some time '''''after''''' a fracture (of any cause) occurred. Thus, the fracture is no longer current, but the bone never knitted, or knitted poorly/incorrectly. For these cases, we do not have any coding for the specific bone that failed to knit properly.

**A '''nontraumatic fracture''' NOT due to one of the causes shown immediately below. In this case, this is a "go with" code that should be combined with the ICD10 code for the specific bone fractured. For these cases, you should also code the bone fractured.

== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==

* ~~any in~~ [[~~:Category:Fracture~~]]

*[[Bone, pathologic fracture due to neoplastic disease]]

*[[Osteoporosis with new pathologic fracture]]

*[[Bone, stress fracture]]

*[[Bone, pathologic fracture NOS]]

*[[Bone, disorder of bone continuity]]

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

~~(put links to likely candidates coded with this one, eg. a cause for a trauma.)~~

*See comment above under "Additional Info"

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 == Additional Info ==
-incl nontraumatic fracture, malunion, nonunion
+*This is a wastebasket code for bone discontinuity problems that are not coded anywhere else.  They include:
+**Malunion or nonunion of a bone -- these refer to problems with a bone failing to repair itself some time '''''after''''' a fracture (of any cause) occurred.  Thus, the fracture is no longer current, but the bone never knitted, or knitted poorly/incorrectly.  For these cases, we do not have any coding for the specific bone that failed to knit properly.
+**A '''nontraumatic fracture''' NOT due to one of the causes shown immediately below.  In this case, this is a "go with" code that should be combined with the ICD10 code for the specific bone fractured. For these cases, you should also code the bone fractured.
 == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition ==
-* any in [[:Category:Fracture]]
+*[[Bone, pathologic fracture due to neoplastic disease]]
+*[[Osteoporosis with new pathologic fracture]]
+*[[Bone, stress fracture]]
+*[[Bone, pathologic fracture NOS]]
+*[[Bone, disorder of bone continuity]]
 == Candidate [[Combined ICD10 codes]] ==
-(put links to likely candidates coded with this one, eg. a cause for a trauma.)
+*See comment above under "Additional Info"
 == Related Articles ==