tci Part B Insider - 2017 Issue 10

Part B Coding Coach: Master Abdominal Pain Coding with These 4 Steps

Substantiate symptoms and signs of stomach suffering with this guide. What happens when a patient presents with abdominal pain and your physician documents the symptoms but is unable to come up with a specific diagnosis? Follow this step-by-step guide to report abdominal pain to the highest level of specificity when the diagnosis remains unclear. Step 1: Look to the R Codes when the Disease is Unknown As soon as your physician notes symptoms of abdominal pain without pinpointing a specific disease, you know that it's time to open your ICD-10-CM and turn to Chapter 18, "Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal...

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