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Annette Woods

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How would you code Acute CVA with Encephalopathy?
 
Acute CVA, not otherwise specified - 435.91

Encephalopathy unspecified - 348.30

I think it's important to understand that encephalopathy is considered an "ill-defined" disease. It's a catch-all for brain diseases. CVA, although unspecified is more specific than encephalopathy. Unless the encephalopathy can be coded to something specific like alcohol (291.2) or hypertension (437.2) it probably doesn't really need to be coded.
 
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