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Wiki screening or no?????

Lynda Wetter

True Blue
Local Chapter Officer
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Exposure to our contact with....is the statement "is sexually active, uses protection....but have a discharge" sufficient enough for the V01.6, Or would that be considered a screening for the STD testing?
 
it is neither. The patient is symptomatic so it cannot be screening. There is no confirmation of an exposure to anything. Therefore it is a diagnostic test for the symptom of a discharge (vaginal or penile)
 
THANK YOU,
you just confirmed exactly what I was thinking....the discharge is what should be coded!
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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