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Choosing Acute or Chronic Dx

Published on Tue Mar 22, 2016

Question: For diagnosis coding purposes, what is the difference between acute and chronic pain? Notes indicate that the physician performed a level-three E/M service for an established patient with complaints of severe pain. I don’t know how to report the ICD-10 code for the patient’s pain. Can you help me select the proper ICD-10 code for this encounter? West Virginia Subscriber [...]
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