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Overuse syndrome - Pt comes into office for wrist pain

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rjenn86

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Pt comes into office for wrist pain and elbow pain, doctor dictates overuse syndrome but nothing indictating tendinitis. How would you code this? Just a pain code is what I was thinking but wanted to make sure. I wasnt able to find just a generic overuse syndrome code. Thank you!!
 
overuse syndrome

Along with the pain codes, have you looked at the E Codes.
I rely on those a lot, say for instance if the patient complains about pain after playing baseball, maybe pitching, I would use E927.3 along with the pain code, and might add the reason [ baseball E007.3]. I like to tell the insurance company the "story".

If you patient has filled out his intake sheet, this information should be available to you.

Hope this helps you. I would be interested to hear from any other coders if they do the same.

Carol
 
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