Wiki Pap Smear routine/diagnostic

[jolener]

When a Patient comes in for a routine pap smear and the addiitonal test 88141 needs to be ran do you code the primary dx routine with the abnormal pap dx secondary or do you just code the abnormal pap code.

 

[WROGERS]

V72.31

Our office codes routine Pap ---V72.31 then code the abnormal pap code