Economic Impact of the Opioid Epidemic: 55 billion in health and social costs related to. prescription opioid abuse each year1. 20 billion in emergency department and. inpatient care for opioid poisonings2. Source: Pain Med. 2011;12(4):657-67.1. 2013;14(10):1534-47.2.
1 S13.4XXA is a billable ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. 2  Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes. 3  This is the American ICD-10-CM version of S13.4XXA. 4  Other international ICD-10 versions may differ.
In this way, vertebral fracture cases are quite common in orthopedic practices and they should ensure accurate orthopedic medical coding to ensure due reimbursement, especially when ICD-10 is on board. In ICD-9, a single code 733.13 was used to report pathological fracture for vertebrae. But ICD-10 codes are more specific and require more details regarding the fractures. You should consider the following while coding for vertebral fractures in ICD-10. Cause of Fracture and Episode of Care. It is very important to specifically identify the underlying cause of the fracture for correct ICD-10 medical coding for vertebral fractures.