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Dig Deep for Details on Post-Traumatic Headache

Question: When encounter notes indicate that a patient is suffering from a post-traumatic headache, what is the proper ICD-10-CM code for the condition? Iowa Subscriber Answer: Your code choice depends on two pieces of information you don’t list in your question: what type of headache it is, and whether the headache was intractable or not intractable. Do this: Go back [...]
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