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Let Spinal Location Guide Your Coding for Schmorl's Nodes

Published on Fri May 22, 2015

Hint: Additional choices will let you get more specific with ICD-10. About 30 percent of the population has a condition known as Schmorl’s nodes – protrusions of disc material into the adjacent vertebral bone. ICD-9 includes several diagnosis codes for Schmorl’s nodes based on the spinal location, and ICD-10 will be the same.  A Schmorl’s node (also called a Schmorl’s [...]
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