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Some of the common causes of abdominal pain include the following:
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coding acute and chronic pain
The "unspecified" codes should be used when information in the patient's record isn't sufficient to assign a more specific code.
Two quick qualifiers: #1: You cannot record the code for renal colic alongside abdominal pain codes. #2: Abdominal pain codes do not cover dorsalgia or flatulence and related conditions , but the codes for these conditions can be used in conjunction with abdominal pain codes. All codes begin with R10 , the general code for abdominal ...