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Neurosurgery Coding Alert

Skull Surgery:

Get Details Before Coding These Infant Operations

Published on Tue Feb 06, 2024

Do you know that craniomegalic skull is present at birth? Neurosurgery is always a delicate matter, particularly when you’re dealing with infants and young children as patients. There are a pair of conditions that infants suffer from that neurosurgeons will often work to correct: craniomegalic skull and encephalocele. Each of these conditions has their own sets of diagnosis codes and [...]
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