ICD 10 Coding Alert

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Switch to G50.0 For Trigeminal Neuralgia Reporting in ICD-10

Hint: Use different ICD-10 code for herpetic trigeminal neuralgia. When your clinician arrives at a diagnosis of trigeminal neuralgia, your reporting of the condition in ICD-10 will be very similar to the way you reported using ICD-9 codes. Even the inclusions and exclusion lists are strikingly similar so you will not have to deviate much from the way you reported [...]
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