AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2001 Fourth Quarter

Routine and administrative examinations

The title for code V70.7, Examination for normal comparison or control in clinical research, has been revised to read, V70.7, Examination of participant in clinical trial. This title change permits the use of the code for either the control or the trial participant. This code should be a secondary code following the diagnosis code for patients in trials where a specific condition is being treated. It should be used as the first listed code for healthy controls without a diagnosis that are being examined while participating in a trial. ...

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