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Advance Your Understanding of Drug Test Coding, Part 1

Published on Thu Jun 26, 2025

Applying the correct code is as easy as understanding the test's purpose. Drug testing makes up a significant proportion of the activity in your lab. But coding it doesn’t have to take up a lot of your time. Simply put, if you know the differences between the purposes of the testing, then you can correctly assign the code for it. [...]
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