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Psychiatry:

Shift Focus to F48.2 For Reporting Pseudobulbar Affect in ICD-10

Published on Fri Oct 09, 2015

Hint: Don’t forget to report associated neurological or traumatic brain injury first. If your clinician’s diagnosis is pseudobulbar affect (PBA), you have to just use a simple crossover code to report this diagnosis in ICD-10. In addition, the list of inclusions and exclusions are strikingly similar, so you will not have to alter your reporting much from the way you [...]
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