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2 Steps Help Pinpoint Specific Codes For Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Published on Thu Feb 25, 2016

Confirm site and side of the bleed and pick up the most precise code from I60.XX series. One important change that ICD-10 has introduced is that it clearly specifies that the codes I60.XX are for subarachnoid hemorrhage in nontraumatic in nature. Once you have confirmed that the bleed was not preceded by trauma, you can easily hit the right code [...]
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