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Flex Your Coding Muscles with This Charley-Horse Case
Published on Tue Jul 16, 2024
Question: The practitioner documents that a patient had a charley-horse. Which code is the most accurate choice? New Hampshire Subscriber Answer: Most likely you’ll turn to M62.831 (Muscle spasm of calf). Here’s why. As you’ve probably already noticed, when you look the condition up in the ICD-10 index, you see two different codes. M62.831 is listed first, and in the corresponding tabular [...]