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Alcohol-Related Cerebral Degeneration Diagnoses
Published on Thu Nov 18, 2021
Question: Notes indicate that the provider saw a patient with “alcoholic encephalopathy.” I cannot find an ICD-10 code with this descriptor; can you help? Utah Subscriber Answer: You’ll assign a patient with alcoholic encephalopathy the G31.2 (Degeneration of nervous system due to alcohol) diagnosis code. Explainer: For diagnosis coding purposes, alcoholic encephalopathy is synonymous with Degeneration of nervous system due [...]