Category Archives: Chronic Pain

How a Pain Management EHR Improves Patient Outcomes

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A doctor examines a patient’s chronic pain symptoms with the help of a reliable pain management EHR.

Every pain management practice has seen it all—patients carrying the weight of chronic pain, fragmented medical records, and a long list of treatments that didn’t work. Unlike other specialties where symptoms may have clear-cut solutions, pain management often requires a multidisciplinary, nuanced approach tailored to each patient. At 1st Providers Choice, we’ve worked alongside pain…

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Revised and Improved Coding and Classification System for Chronic Pain

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coding chronic pain in icd 10

Since there is no coding structure for chronic pain, it is difficult for hospitals to charge for treatment, and it is almost impossible for insurers and other policymakers to properly grasp the human and financial consequences of chronic pain. However, all of that is going to change with the recent coding changes.