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Advance Your Understanding of Drug Test Coding, Part 2

Published on Mon Jul 14, 2025

Make sure you answer the mini quiz at the end. Last month, we looked at the difference between presumptive, definitive, and therapeutic drug testing, and the correct way to code for each type of test. Now, in the second part of the series, we turn our attention to the diagnosis codes used to demonstrate medical necessity for these tests. [...]
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