Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
URINE CULTURE ICD-9 CODES MAY CHANGE
Published on Fri Jun 18, 2004 
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has opened a new tracking sheet on its process to decide whether to remove ICD-9 code V72.84 (Pre-operative examination, unspecified) from the list of covered diagnoses for urine culture and iron studies.
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