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Follow 2 Steps to Make the Best Diagnosis Choice for Spinal Nerve Root Injuries

Published on Thu Sep 25, 2014

You have no options if your physician does not document the region of injury. Choosing the best diagnosis for spinal nerve root injury will be simple for most cases under ICD-10 because the current codes have a one-to-one crossover. The tricky part will be in knowing how to select the code when your physician either documents injuries in multiple spinal [...]
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