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See Through Haze Surrounding Migraine Coding

Published on Mon Apr 08, 2019

Utilize the sixth character for more accurate coding. Migraine coding may be more involved than you previously suspected. A sixth character could be the difference in the accuracy necessary to code a migraine diagnosis properly. A patient has a migraine headache that your provider diagnoses. You check the ICD-10 book for codes, find G43, and move onto the next claim, [...]
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