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 primary reason for the visit is the fracture, so the fracture code S62.91XA should be listed first, followed by the HIV-related condition B20, and then the peripheral neuropathy G99.0.

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