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Make Migraine (Coding) Pain Go Away With 5th, 6th Character Smarts

Published on Thu Nov 18, 2021

Here’s why drilling down into the notes will pay off for coders. Choosing the correct diagnosis code for migraine patients 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 the patient is suffering from. Along the way [...]
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