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ICD-10:

Don't Miss Your Extra Diagnosis Option for Parkinson's Disease

Published on Tue Jun 24, 2014

ICD-10 will let you code with much more specificity.  Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disease of the nervous system marked by tremor, muscular rigidity, and slow, imprecise movement. It primarily affects middle-aged and elderly people, and scientists believe it is associated with degeneration of the basal ganglia of the brain and a deficiency of the neurotransmitter dopamine.  When your neurologist [...]
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