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Wiki Negative DIF

Thread starter jperkins
Start date Jan 25, 2017

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jperkins

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Jan 25, 2017

If you have a pathology report on a skin biopsy that states interface dermatitis (or any other codeable diagnosis) and then says negative DIF, skin, site; what diagnosis code do you use on the negative DIF? Would you bill it with the codeable diagnosis or with L98.8?

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