Question

Office Note: "Sally has been experiencing right upper quadrant pain for the last 3 months. After extensive testing, gallbladder disease and gall stones have been ruled out. The clinical assessment is spasm of the sphincter of Oddi." The code(s) to report for this case is/are _________.

Answer 1

K83.4

Step-by-step explanation:

IN this context, the 'code report' refers to the code that is written under the International classification of disease released by the World Health organization.

Code K83.4 was used for a situation For cases in which short term replacement of biliary and pancreatic fluid could be resulted in abdominal pain. This is what could occurs in sphincter of Oddi dysfunction. ( which could be indicated by sphincter goes into "spasm" )