Wiki 87210

[campy1961]

We are experience denials on 87210 because we code V72.31. When a patient is in for a Well Women Exam and our physician/NP's do a pap smear 87210 and we code it with a V72.31. Is there something I am missing???

Thanks, Connie

 

[karey]

87210 is usually performed for a problem and is not a routine service. (Smear, primary source with interpretation;wet mount for infectious agents (eg, saline, India ink, KOH preps)

If they are performing this a a routine service they need to STOP or keep losing revenue.

 

[MBass]

When my clinic does wet preps it is usually for vaginal discharge, odor, some kind of problem that the patient is experiencing. It is never done for routine.

 

[mitchellde]

When my clinic does wet preps it is usually for vaginal discharge, odor, some kind of problem that the patient is experiencing. It is never done for routine.

This is a lab code for the lab to use not the provider office to collect the specimen to send to the lab.

 

[MBass]

Mitchellde,

Our physicians perform wet preps at our hospital and I bill out office, hospital and labs. I am just stating that they should be performed for a problem, not routine.