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ICD-10 Update:

Chill Out Over Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms

Published on Thu Apr 11, 2013

Cause is important in congenital aneurysms, location in others. When reporting nonruptured cerebral aneurysms in ICD-10, you’ll be on easy street as long as you can confirm the aneurysm in the carotid artery. When submitting a diagnosis code for an intracranial aneurysm that is not ruptured, you report ICD-9 code 437.3 (Cerebral aneurysm nonruptured). This code applies for aneurysms in [...]
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