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That means low back pain is a separate diagnosis from G89.-, and G89.- should not be used for low back pain per se. However, if the patient has both low back pain and pain not elsewhere classified, or if a category G89.- code provides additional information, then codes M54.5- and G89.- may both be used,” says Moore.
Coding alert 1: “From an ICD-10-CM perspective, lower back pain and strain are mutually exclusive diagnoses, as there is an Excludes1 note under M54.5 directing coders to S39.012- for low back strain,” cautions Moore. Scenario 3: Your provider documents that a patient has chronic lower back pain due to surgery or trauma.
ICD-10. ICD-10-CM Codes. Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue. Dorsopathies. Other dorsopathies. Dorsalgia (M54) Low back pain, unspecified (M54.50) M54.5.
Let Your Fingers do the Walking. You find M54 in the Tabular List in ICD-10-CM and find M54.5 Low back pain. However, this code requires a fifth character. Your choices are as follows: M54.50 Low back pain, unspecified. This diagnosis code includes loin pain and lumbago not otherwise specified (NOS).
Low back pain. Excludes1: low back strain (S39.012) lumbago due to intervertebral disc displacement (M51.2 -) lumbago with sciatica (M54.4 -) M54. Excludes1: psychogenic dorsalgia (F45.41) M54.5 Low back pain. M54.50. Low back pain, unspecified.
Per ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines (section I.C.6), you “may use codes from category G89 with codes that identify the site of pain (including codes from chapter 18) if the category G89 code provides additional information. For example, if the code describes the site of the pain, but does not fully describe whether the pain is acute or chronic ...
ICD-10. ICD-10-CM Codes. Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified. General symptoms and signs. Pain, unspecified (R52) R51.9. R52.
ICD-10. ICD-10-CM Codes. Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue. Dorsopathies. Other dorsopathies. Dorsalgia (M54) Radiculopathy, lumbar region (M54.16) M54.15. M54.16.
That means low back pain is a separate diagnosis from G89.-, and G89.- should not be used for low back pain per se. However, if the patient has both low back pain and pain not elsewhere classified, or if a category G89.- code provides additional information, then codes M54.5- and G89.- may both be used,” says Moore.
pain disorders exclusively related to psychological factors pain NOS . Excludes2: atypical face pain headache syndromes (G44.-) localized pain, unspecified type - code to pain by site, such as: abdomen pain (R10.-) back pain breast pain chest pain (R07.1-R07.9) ear pain (H92.0-) eye pain headache