Wiki subgaleal hemorrhage - traumatic

[srinivas r sajja]

how do you code traumatic subgaleal hemorrhage?

 

[srinivas r sajja]

I came up with 920. any inputs?

 

[ajs]

how do you code traumatic subgaleal hemorrhage?

In relation to what? When I typed that term into Encoder Pro it came up with Birth Trauma. Who is the patient and what are the circumstances of the trauma?

 

[srinivas r sajja]

pt's age 85 , traumatic.

 

[veeramani14]

I think we can go for the code 853.00, bcoz the dx u mentioned is only for newborn, so we can go ahead with 853.00.

 

[srinivas r sajja]

subgaleal is not intracranial and 920 is not an new born code.