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ICD-10 Coding:

Know Pain Types, Prevent Dx Coding From Hurting Bottom Line

Published on Thu Mar 03, 2022

Do you know how long pain must last before it’s chronic? When you have to submit ICD-10 codes for your patient’s pain, there’s a specific code set you need to go to for your pain diagnoses. The devil’s in the details, however, as category G89 (Pain, not elsewhere classified) has many mutations you can choose from depending on the site [...]
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