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ICD-10-CM 2022:

Report Severe Brain Injuries Using New Brain Compression Codes

Published on Tue Feb 22, 2022

An estimated 1.5 million people suffer a traumatic brain injury each year. Before Oct. 1, 2021, you were limited to using traumatic brain injury (TBI) codes to report brain compression conditions. Now, with newly added traumatic brain compression codes and instructions, you can accurately report traumatic brain compression diagnoses and underlying conditions. Check out our breakdown of the new codes [...]
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