tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2014 Issue 5

ICD-10 Coding: Don't Let A Back Pain Diagnosis Cause You M76.00

Provide clarification of exact location and cause of back pain. ICD-10 implementation may have been delayed, but for those of you who have already gotten your training, this ongoing series can help reinforce your content knowledge. Otherwise this introduction to the chapters in ICD-10 will introduce those codes and instructions for ED relevant presentations. Perhaps one of the more challenging sections of ICD-10 for physicians and coders is Chapter 13 covering Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue, because they will require a much higher level of specificity for documentation of location and type disorder and external causes...

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