Squeeze these V90 retained fragment codes onto fall tickets.
When you can’t get all of a splinter out, a new diagnosis code series will soon tell the story. FPs are all too familiar with foreign body removal that gets only part of the object – and come this fall they’ll have a diagnosis code that explains the condition.
Pieces of wood, glass, or bullet shrapnel might be left in during foreign body removal. The fragment may break or [...]
