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December 22, 2021

I have a prosthetic hip dislocation (T84.02) with a traumatic mechanism, over reached for something and fell. Like our peri-prosthetic fractures, am I coding this to hip dislocation (S73.0) and including as PTOS?

The S73 code has an Excludes 2 note, excluding dislocation of prosthetic. So if all that is dislocated is the prosthetic, it directs to use the T84 code, which does not qualify for inclusion. Excludes 2 means there could also code S73, if there is injury to anything (hip) other than the prosthetic.

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