Neurology & Pain Management Coding Alert
Coding Update:
ICD-9 Changes Are Coming
Published on Wed Sep 12, 2007
The latest ICD-9 changes go into effect Oct. 1, 2007, so it pays to be up to speed on new, deleted and revised codes and descriptors. For an easy-to-follow chart highlighting codes of interest to neurology practices (including new ones for primary central nervous system lymphoma and several myotonic conditions), e-mail editor Leigh DeLozier at leighdelozier@bellsouth.net.
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