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ICD-10 Maintains Easy Coding for Quadriplegia

Published on Tue Apr 30, 2013

As in ICD-9, check levels and extent of quadriplegia for correct diagnosis. When reporting the diagnosis codes for quadriplegia in ICD-10, you can continue to adopt the same rules that you did for the ICD-9 codes. Verify the spinal level and extent of the condition, and your choices narrow themselves. Look For One-To-One Mapping in ICD-10 When reporting quadriplegia in [...]
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