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Diagnosis Selection:

Examine Each Character Option to Lessen Migraine Coding Pain

Expect to extend to the 5th — or often 6th — character. Migraine diagnosis assignment can seem more convoluted than code selection for many other conditions because you almost always have to carry the code out to the full sixth-digit length. You’ll always begin with G43 (Migraine), but your options quickly expand from there. Here’s how to examine characters four, [...]
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