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 starts with the code for the acute condition (S62.91XA - Fracture of unspecified part of right wrist and hand, initial encounter), followed by the patient's HIV status (B20 - HIV disease), and finally the code for the peripheral neuropathy (G99.0 - Neuropathy in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere), which is a condition related to the HIV.

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