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Grade Your 5 Pap-Test Scenario Responses

Published on Tue Jan 24, 2017

Don’t confuse screening vs. diagnostic tests. After reading the questions on page 11, now is the time to see if you’ve mastered the ins and outs of Pap test coding. Here are the answers, according to our experts: Solution 1: The denial probably came because the ordering diagnosis gives no indication that the patient is high risk, and you exceeded [...]
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