G89.18

G89.18 Diagnosis Code: Other acute postprocedural pain

The ICD-10 G89.18 diagnosis code is used to designate Other acute postprocedural pain. This is a standard ICD-10 code used on patients who experience pain after undergoing a surgical procedure. Feeling pain after undergoing a surgical procedure is common and considered to be an expected outcome.

Acute postprocedural pain refers to the pain that patients immediately feel after surgery and after their anesthetics wear off. This pain should last for, at most, three months. The pain should lessen over time.

Is G89.18 billable?

Yes. This ICD-10 code is valid and billable.

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Clinical information about postprocedural pain:

Postprocedural pain, sometimes called surgical or postoperative pain, is a type of pain that patients are guaranteed to feel after a surgical procedure. It’s unavoidable for anyone undergoing surgery. Surgeons and their teams will even inform patients that postprocedural pain is an expected outcome.

This type of pain can either be acute or chronic. In the case of G89.18, the pain is acute, which, as mentioned earlier, is felt as soon as the anesthetics wear off. This pain should only last for three months, and the severity of the pain should become weaker as time passes.

The postprocedural pain will be considered chronic if it persists longer than three months. There’s a different ICD-10 code for this.

Synonyms include:

• Acute postoperative pain
• Acute surgical pain
• Acute post-op pain
• Posttreatment pain
• Acute posttreatment pain
• Acute surgical pain
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Other ICD-10 codes commonly used for postprocedural pain:

G89.28 - Other chronic postprocedural pain is the only other ICD-10 code used for postprocedural pain. As its name says, it’s meant to be used once a patient’s postprocedural pain becomes chronic.

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