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  2. Does Medicare cover PAP smears? - AOL

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    How often does Medicare cover PAP smears? Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans follow the same schedule for covering routine PAP smears. Most people can receive a PAP smear once every 24 ...

  3. What to know about HPV testing with Medicare - AOL

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    Medicare Part B and Medicare Advantage plans cover the full cost of HPV testing with a Pap smear as long as the provider accepts the insurance. However, if the provider does not accept Medicare ...

  4. Pap Smears May No Longer Be Part of Your Gyno Visit

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    Currently, the pap smear — in which cells taken from the cervix are examined by a doctor “for cervical cancer or cell changes,” per the National Cancer Institute — is the recommended ...

  5. Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments - Wikipedia

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    The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988 (CLIA 88) was passed in the USA subsequent to the publication of an article in November 1987 in The Wall Street Journal entitled "Lax Laboratories: The Pap Test Misses Much Cervical Cancer Through Labs Errors", which alerted the public to the fact that a pap smear may be falsely negative.

  6. Pap test - Wikipedia

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    The Papanicolaou test (abbreviated as Pap test, also known as Pap smear (AE), [1] cervical smear (BE), cervical screening (BE), [2] or smear test (BE)) is a method of cervical screening used to detect potentially precancerous and cancerous processes in the cervix (opening of the uterus or womb) or, more rarely, anus (in both men and women). [3]

  7. List of medical abbreviations: P - Wikipedia

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    PAP: Papanicolaou stain positive airway pressure pulmonary artery pressure (see pulmonary hypertension) [1] pulmonary alveolar proteinosis: Pap: Papanicolaou test (pap smear) PAPP-A: pregnancy-associated plasma protein A PARA I: indicating a woman with one child (partus = birth) [1] PARA II: indicating a woman with two children (partus = birth ...

  8. Major Diagnostic Category - Wikipedia

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    The Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC) are formed by dividing all possible principal diagnoses (from ICD-9-CM) into 25 mutually exclusive diagnosis areas.MDC codes, like diagnosis-related group (DRG) codes, are primarily a claims and administrative data element unique to the United States medical care reimbursement system.

  9. Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia - Wikipedia

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    The two screening methods available are the Pap smear and testing for HPV. CIN is usually discovered by a screening test, the Pap smear. The purpose of this test is to detect potentially precancerous changes through random sampling of the transformation zone. Pap smear results may be reported using the Bethesda system (see above).