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Neurology & Pain Management:

Get Extremely Specific with Extremity ICD-10s

Published on Wed Aug 02, 2017

Arm yourself for coding battle with this limb pain primer. Since ICD-10’s implementation, patients reporting to your practice with limb pain are more of a coding challenge than ever. Why? Specificity might dictate that you use more than a single code — even to identify pain in the same limb. If you don’t know when to drill down on limb [...]
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