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Find Thoracic Neuritis Dx

Published on Tue Feb 15, 2022

Question: Encounter notes indicate that the provider treated a patient with a diagnosis of “thoracic neuritis/NOS/sacral and sacrococc..” I cannot find the proper ICD-10 code for this condition. Can you help? Idaho Subscriber Answer: The code you’ll want for this condition is M54.18 (Radiculopathy, sacral and sacrococcygeal region). Alternate phrasing alert: What you saw in the notes might have thrown [...]
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