Internal Medicine Coding Alert
Reader Questions:
V Code Vital for TB Test Claim
Published on Sun Jul 27, 2008 
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Answer: You should report V74.1 (Special screening examination for bacterial and spirochetal diseases; pulmonary tuberculosis) when your internist's staff applies a PPD TB test. Code V03.2 (Need for prophylactic vaccination and inoculation against bacterial diseases; tuberculosis [BCG]) is for vaccination with BCG, whereas the PPD test is for screening. Report 86580 (Skin test; tuberculosis, intradermal) for the test with V74.1 appended.
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