Our physician performed colposcopy-directed vaginal biopsies and a transvaginal tape (TVT) procedure with cystoscopy. The diagnosis was a Pap result consistent with vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia I (VIN I). How should these procedures be coded?
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First, I hope there was another diagnosis besides VIN I—this condition justifies the directed biopsies but not the TVT procedure, which would be done for stress urinary incontinence (ICD-9-CM code 625.6).
