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What is the appropriate ICD for heel pain?
Please suggest me the appropriate diagonsis code to bill for heel pain. Thanks1
I use
plantar fasciitis since that is the most common cause of heel pain. 728.71; or you could use a pain in joint 719.4x code since the pain technically is from a joint not the heel itself
Heel pain
...unless the patient was having heel pain due to a undiagnosed calcaneal fracture.
Appropriate ICD for heel pain
But the ICD 728.71 is use in case of physical injury or wound. May I use ICD 729.5 (Pain in limb). Is it correct? Please suggest or give an appropriate ICD to bill for heel pain (without any injury or wound). Thank you.
Don't sweat it
Use any of those codes- why the worry? The relative complexity of each code is equal so you are not going to trigger an audit if you pick the "wrong" one.
If it hurts, it must have been injured/damaged/inflamed even if they do not recall the specific injury.