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ICD-10 Coding:

Arm Yourself with this Limb Pain Dx Primer

Published on Wed Jun 21, 2017

ICD-10 offers 1-, 2-code options for arm/leg pain. When patients report to your pediatric practice complaining of limb pain, you’ll need to know some ICD-10 basics in order to report the proper code. In short: Specificity might dictate that you use more than a single code — even to identify pain in the same limb. If you don’t know when [...]
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