jberg@itctel.com
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When a patient comes in for their wellness exam and has labs, such as the general health panel, metabolic panel, maybe glucose testing, tsh labs and they have diabetes, hypothyroidism, hypertension, is it alright to just use the wellness dx, V70.0 on the labs instead of the diagnosis for the conditions they have. I am inclined to code the conditions that have already been diagnosed. Another coder says no, that it is there wellness and they should be coded as that. Any input would be appreciated.