tci Part B Insider - 2013 Issue 15

Keep Diagnoses at Top of Mind With Migraines

Plus: Know how to report these headaches under ICD-10. When reporting a migraine, the first factors you should look for are the severity and length of time the patient has had the problem. For a chronic, continuing form of headache that isn’t responding to standard treatment, you turn to codes for intractable migraine. Then confirm if your physician is treating a status migrainosus. Example 1: Your physician treats a migraine in a patient who had a headache for the past two days. The patient has a history of similar attacks that respond to the regular medication. Report ICD-9...

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