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Highlight Dx For Pregnancy Discovered by Ultrasound

Published on Tue Oct 25, 2016

Question: We did a pelvic ultrasound on a patient due to pelvic pain and discovered the patient is pregnant. I know I should use 76856, but do I stick with the R10.2 and then use incidental pregnancy finding, or do I use O99.89 and R10.2? Thank you! Kansas Subscriber Answer: You are correctly coding this as a gynecology examination, so the diagnosis [...]
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