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Use Common Z Codes for Your Lab Reporting and Pay

Impact your diagnosis coding with Table 1 rundown. Hopefully the preceding article helped you learn about many types of Z codes that labs might report. To build on that info, we’ve put together the following table listing many Z codes that your lab might use as a primary diagnosis to justify screening tests, or to describe lab-test findings that will [...]
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