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Check How You'll Report Neck Sprains and Strains Under the New Code Set

Published on Mon Oct 05, 2015

Hint: They’re not the same condition, despite what you might hear. Many people outside the medical profession – and some within it – tend to interchange the terms “sprain” and “strain.” Part of the reason for this might lie in the fact that neck sprain and strain share a common code in ICD-9: 847.0 (Neck sprain) under category 847 (Sprains [...]
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