ICD-10:
Don't Miss Your Extra Diagnosis Option for Parkinson's Disease
Published on Tue Jun 24, 2014
ICD-10 will let you code with much more specificity. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disease of the nervous system marked by tremor, muscular rigidity, and slow, imprecise movement. It primarily affects middle-aged and elderly people, and scientists believe it is associated with degeneration of the basal ganglia of the brain and a deficiency of the neurotransmitter dopamine. When your neurologist [...]