Hello-
We are having a difficult time with coding pap smears in the lab/specimen setting. We have a pap smear we want to code for billing that needs the dx code for pap (Z12.4) and they also got it screened for HPV (Z11.51) but the Z12.4 has an excludes 1 note and cannot be coded with Z11.51. So how do we code the pap smears that had HPV screening as well?
Thank you for the help.
-Chelsea
We are having a difficult time with coding pap smears in the lab/specimen setting. We have a pap smear we want to code for billing that needs the dx code for pap (Z12.4) and they also got it screened for HPV (Z11.51) but the Z12.4 has an excludes 1 note and cannot be coded with Z11.51. So how do we code the pap smears that had HPV screening as well?
Thank you for the help.
-Chelsea