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Diagnosis Coding:

Go Beyond R10.- for Abdominal Pain Coding

Published on Fri May 13, 2022

From symptoms and age to severity, you need multiple data points to choose a diagnosis. When a patient presents to the ED with abdominal or pelvic pain, one of the more obvious diagnosis code groups is R10.- (Abdominal and pelvic pain). However, to choose the right code in this category, you’ll need to know a few key details. One of [...]
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