Intracranial injury of other and unspecified nature without mention of open intracranial wound with brief (less than one hour) loss of consciousness (854.02)
ICD-9 code 854.02 for Intracranial injury of other and unspecified nature without mention of open intracranial wound with brief (less than one hour) loss of consciousness is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range -INTRACRANIAL INJURY, EXCLUDING THOSE WITH SKULL FRACTURE (850-854).
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Since the 995.55 had to be reported with the acute injury code, I am assuming the original injury was in the 850-854 range. The patients current issue are all a result of the intracranial injury whic... [ Read More ]
Thank you, I was looking at that code and since it is a late effect classifiable to injury codes 850-854 would using 909.9 late effect of other and unspecified external causes be better? I do not see... [ Read More ]
[QUOTE="tsmiddle@nfpmedcenter.org, post: 192220, member: 124839"]Sure, some examples of dx used are: these are all billed with a LOS.
1) 854.00-BRAIN INJURY NEC [Active]
2) 435.9-UNSPECIFIED TRANSIEN... [ Read More ]
Sure, some examples of dx used are: these are all billed with a LOS.
1) 854.00-BRAIN INJURY NEC [Active]
2) 435.9-UNSPECIFIED TRANSIENT CER [Active]
3) 345.90-UNSPECIFIED EPILEPSY WITH [Active]
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