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ICD-10 Coding:

Use These Tips, Keep Pain Dx Coding From Hurting Bottom Line

Published on Tue Feb 15, 2022

Chronic means pain that lasts 12 weeks. When you have to submit ICD-10 codes for your patients’ pain, there’s a specific code set you need to go to for your pain diagnoses. The devil’s in the details, however, as category G89 (Pain, not elsewhere classified) has many mutations you can choose from depending on the site and type of pain. [...]
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