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Get Details Before Choosing Other Spondylopathy Dx

Published on Mon Feb 05, 2024

Particulars are vital on this ‘general’ code set. With a pretty generic descriptor, you might think that the codes included in the M48.- (Other spondylopathies) family would be catch-all codes. if anything, the reverse is true. Why? M48.- contains eight different “other” spondylopathy codes. You’ll have to know how far to extend each of these codes — including whether or [...]
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