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Consider Symptoms vs. Screening When Coding STIs

Published on Thu Feb 19, 2026

Don’t forget to consider prolonged service codes when warranted. When a patient is diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI), your provider may need to prescribe medications, counsel the patient, and even offer care to the patient’s sexual partner. But in some instances, the patient will simply get an STI screening, without any symptoms or firm diagnosis at all. Reporting [...]
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