MedAbbrev, now by innoviHealth, has been the industry standard for medical abbreviations and acronyms since 1983. Quick and easy access for hospitals, providers, coders, transcriptionists, students and researchers to over 75,000 entries. With clear and accurate standardization that is always current, medical professionals can reduce the chance of error stemming from misunderstood abbreviations.
Diagnosis coding corner: Know the language of migraine headaches to ease the pain of coding
Don’t feel baffled when the chief complaint is migraine and the note contains terms such as “aura” “status migrainosus” or “refractory.” The terms are your guideposts to the correct diagnosis code.
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