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ICD-10:

Painful Joints Don't Need to Mean Painful Diagnosis Coding

Published on Wed Jul 23, 2014

Here’s the rundown on how your joint pain diagnoses will be more detailed in 2015. A patient reporting to your practice with a painful joint can be fairly straightforward to code for, even before a condition such as chronic pain syndrome might be diagnosed. You currently have 10 options based on the affected anatomic site, but your ICD-10 choices will [...]
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