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ICD-10 Coding:

Make Movement Disorder Dx a Sure Thing by Knowing G20-G26

Published on Wed Apr 20, 2022

Parkinson’s isn’t the only disorder in the group. Coders whose knowledge of movement disorders begins and ends with Parkinson’s disease are in danger of miscoding some patients with these types of ailments. Why? Although Parkinson’s is perhaps to most common movement disorder, ICD-10 has an entire code set dedicated to “Extrapyramidal and movement disorders (G20-G26).” To get a handle on [...]
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