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Changing Diagnosis

Thread starter mama2stephen
Start date Jun 7, 2012

mama2stephen

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Jun 7, 2012

All of our Cardio docs order a PT for surgical clearance, so it's coded w/ V72.81. Medicare will not cover that diagnosis for a PT, so if they have CAD is it OK to code that even though the lab was ordered for surgical clearance?

Thanks in advance!!!

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