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Wiki Testing wound draingage for CSF

Thread starter oskolkoff
Start date Sep 4, 2015

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oskolkoff

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Sep 4, 2015

A pt came into the clinic who had hardware placed in his neck 5 day post surgery. There is drainage from the surgery site. The provider wanted to know if the drainage was CSF. The drainage was tested for glucose using a UA dip strip test. CPT 81003 is for a urine sample.

The clinic staff have really stumped me on this one. Does anyone have any ideas how to code this or if it can be coded?

Thanks for the help,
Jennifer

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