You Be the Coder:
Assign These Codes for Lower Back Pain Severity
Published on Fri Aug 13, 2021
Question: How do I code acute or chronic lower back pain? Even with the new ICD-10 codes it seems we can only document the pain and not its severity. Colorado Subscribert Answer: As you say, choices for documenting lower back do not specify pain severity. After Oct. 1, 2021, while you will have three new codes to report the pain [...]