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Other injury of abdomen (959.12)

ICD-9 code 959.12 for Other injury of abdomen is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range -CERTAIN TRAUMATIC COMPLICATIONS AND UNSPECIFIED INJURIES (958-959).

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[QUOTE="tag60, post: 463597, member: 276133"] F15.9x has an Excludes 1 for F15.1x, so you would code only the F15.959. [/QUOTE] Would you not code F15.159 seeing as how the abuse is the specifics of t... [ Read More ]
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