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Align Your Answers With These Repeat Pap Smear Coding Solutions

Published on Mon Nov 21, 2016

The wrong diagnosis could cost you $44 per patient. Pap smear results can return as abnormal for various reasons. Atypical Squamous Cells of Undetermined Significance (ASCUS), Atypical Glandular cells of Undetermined Significance (AGUS), or an inflammatory condition present when the smear was collected can affect the results. If the patient has an inflammation, such as acute vaginitis (N76.0), that affects [...]
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