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ICD-10 Coding:

Learn Disc Disorder Types to Pinpoint Dx

Published on Tue Jun 06, 2023

Report M50.8- for‘other’ cervical disc disorders. Patients reporting to the practice with cervical disc disorders may have pain in the spinal area; the diagnosis coding for these patients can be a pain in the neck for coders, too. How? The disorder can be represented by a number of different base ICD-10 codes. From there, coders need to concentrate on the [...]
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