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ICD-10:

G89 Family Will Bring Chronic, Acute Pain Options

Published on Wed May 11, 2011

Hint: One-to-one cross from ICD-9 eases transition.When ICD-10 goes into effect in October 2013, you'll have lots of new codes to learn when your physician diagnoses acute or chronic pain. Fortunately, each existing diagnosis has a straight crossover with a structure almost identical to ICD-9. Common choices under ICD-10 will include:G89.0 (Central pain syndrome)G89.11 (Acute pain due to trauma) or G89.21 (Chronic pain due to trauma) for trauma painG89.12 (Acute post-thoracotomy pain) or G89.22 (Chronic post-thoracotomy pain) following thoracotomy (not otherwise specified)G89.18 (Other acute postprocedural pain) or G89.28 (Other chronic postprocedural pain) for NOS postoperative pain. Note the change in terminology from "postoperative" in ICD-9 to "postprocedural" in ICD-10.G89.3 (Neoplasm related pain [acute] [chronic]) for any type of neoplasm pain, including that caused by cancer, tumors, or primary or secondary malignancyG89.4 (Chronic pain syndrome) for chronic pain syndrome, including pain associated with significant psychosocial dysfunction.Details: The G89 (Pain, not elsewhere [...]
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