Short description: Chronic postop pain NEC. ICD-9-CM 338.28 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 338.28 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015.

Chronic postoperative pain can be cause by various conditions, including nerve damage, scar tissue formation and post-surgical complications.

2016 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code G89.28. Other chronic postprocedural pain. 2016 Specific Code. G89.28 is a specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to specify a . Other chronic postoperative pain; Approximate Synonyms . Chronic pain, postop; Chronic postoperative pain; ICD-10-CM G89.28 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v32.0): 091 Other disorders of nervous system with mcc; 092 Other disorders of nervous system with cc; 093 Other disorders of nervous system without cc/mcc .

Chronic Pain after Surgery or Injury Vol. XIX, Issue 1 January 2011 . been identifi ed as specifi c markers for the generation of chronic pain after surgery. Other preoperative risk factors are gender and age.2, 3 Females, who show increased incidence of most . LA, Granot M. Prediction of chronic post-operative pain: pre-operative DNIC test-ing identifi es patients at risk. Pain 2008;138:22–8.

Persistent post-operative pain is defined as a pain in the location of the surgery that persist for many months or even years beyond the usual course of an acute injury and is different of that . infection or tumor. The most important causes are neuropathic pain states due to nerve compression, entrapment or other damage. Chronic pain, that is very often resistant to treatment, occurs after failed back surgery. Traumatic nerve injury during surgery results in persistent pain known as a .

Acute Postoperative Pain: General overview. Time Required: 10 minutes. . (postoperative pain) process. It may be recurrent, with or without a background of ongoing chronic pain, (e.g. sickle cell disease, rheumatoid arthritis). Particularly after surgery, patients will be subjected to degrees of pain and we need to be able to assess this pain, . The degree of postoperative pain experienced by individuals varies enormously.

A recent review provides a sobering picture of the missing clinical links in research regarding current pharmacological treatment for chronic postoperative pain.

Other chronic post-operative pain: ICD-9-CM Code 338.28 (Note: BWC to indicate body part/region in narrative for code) Definition: Ongoing pain symptoms of at least 12 months duration post completion of a definitive surgical procedure other than thoracotomy (338.22) or lumbar discectomy, laminectomy or fusion (722.8) for a recognized allowed condition in the claim.

Chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP) is one of the most common and serious complications after surgery. There is no universally agreed definition of CPSP; however, the working definition proposed by Macrae and Davies is commonly used (Fig. 1).