Reader Question:
Flex Your Coding Muscles with This Charley-Horse Case
Published on Fri Dec 08, 2023
Question: The pediatrician documents that a patient had a charley-horse. Which code is the most accurate choice? New Hampshire Subscriber Answer: Most likely you’ll turn to M62.831 (Muscle spasm of calf). Here’s why. As you’ve probably already noticed, when you look the condition up in the ICD-10 index, you see two different codes So unless the pediatrician has indicated that the condition [...]