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Neurosurgery Coding Alert

ICD-10 Coding:

Factor in Patient Status, Time for Accurate Sequela Coding

Published on Thu Apr 05, 2018

Plus, know how to determine the principal diagnosis. As a neurosurgery coder, you will encounter instances in which a prior injury, illness, or disease will exhibit new signs or symptoms after the initial injury or illness has subsided. These manifestations from the previous trauma or illness, also known as sequela effects, can be extremely difficult to grasp from a ICD-10-CM [...]
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