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Optimize Your Use of 5th, 6th Characters to Ensure Pain-Free Migraine Coding

Published on Mon Dec 13, 2021

Migraine may be among your most rule-intensive diagnoses in the ED. Choosing the correct diagnosis code when you see a patient with a migraine attack in the ED is about as involved as it gets in terms of ICD-10 coding. Why? You’ve got to code all the way to the sixth character in order to accurately portray the migraine that [...]
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