A 35-year-old male patient presents to the Emergency Room with a chief complaint of severe pain in the right hand after sustaining a fall down a flight of concrete steps at his apartment complex. Upon examination, the patient sustained multiple closed fractures to the hand. The patient is also HIV positive and suffers from peripheral neuropathy. Select the appropriate code selection and sequence to report for this patient:

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The correct sequence for coding is to first report the injury (S62.91XA for the hand fracture), followed by the HIV status (B20 for symptomatic HIV), and then the peripheral neuropathy (G99.0).

A 35-Year-Old Male Patient Presents to the Emergency Room with a Chief