Neurology & Pain Management Coding Alert

Pain management:

Let These Tips Guide You When Reporting Pain Related to Psychological Factors

Include G89.x codes for pain when necessary. When you’re choosing a diagnosis code for patients with pain related to psychological disorders, you’ll need to make sure you get the order of the maladies correct. “It’s a chicken-and-egg situation,” says Asokumar Buvanendran, MD, William Gottschalk Endowed Chair of Anesthesiology, Vice Chair Research & Director of Orthopedic Anesthesia, and professor of anesthesiology at [...]
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