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Base Your Skull Fracture Coding on These Dx Tips

Published on Wed Dec 07, 2016

Remember, laterality matters with ICD-10. Fractures in the skull base are complex to treat yet simple to report. You can adopt an easy stepwise approach to find the correct diagnosis code for skull base fractures. Make sure you have checked for the following before you can finalize the diagnosis code for skull base fractures: Check if the fracture is on [...]
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