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Wiki culture of the tongue

Thread starter suzannereed
Start date Sep 29, 2010

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suzannereed

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Sep 29, 2010

A doctor in our group is taking a culture of the tongue, looking for thrush. Would the correct code be 87106? Most of the patients are on Medicare, it doesn't look like Medicare would pay for this. Any thoughts on this being the correct code or not?

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