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Stay Up to Date With Acute Pain Management, Part 1

Find some expert tips for coding anesthesia pain management services. Acute postoperative pain management (POPM) remains a hot topic, especially for new anesthesia coders. In 2013, approximately 80 percent of patients experienced postoperative (or acute) pain after surgery, and if you use a search engine to check, the same is still true. However, billing for these often-used services can sometimes [...]
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