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What diagnosis code would you use when a patient wants STD testing after traveling outside the United States to a country where STD risk is high?
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Wiki STD testing after traveling outside the United States
CodingKing
True Blue
I'd probably go with Z20.2 - Contact with and (suspected) exposure to infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission.
mitchellde
True Blue
is this a screening due to having had unprotected sex or does this person know or suspect that the partner has an STD? It will be a different code depending.