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I have a patient who was tested for COVID-19 during their hospital stay. Their first test came back positive, however the following two tests they had were both negative. The doctors documented the results as a false positive. When entering this into the additional PTSF element field, would this be considered a negative diagnosis? I just want to make sure that I am capturing this appropriately.

With physician documentation of a false positive, and negative test results following, you will enter negative. With patients now being tested multiple times during their stay, if they test positive at any point, we are directing to record a positive result. If you did not have the physician documentation and negative result confirmation, then you …

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Question for you….I have two COVID scenarios for you…When there is a patient that has a COVID test within 30 days of admission to the hospital and also has testing in the hospital what result do you take (especially when the results are not the same) The patient arrived to the ED and gained a COVID test and it was negative on day #5 of admission an additional test was taken and the test result was Positive, post admission day #18 an additional test was taken, to allow return to the SNF and the test result was Negative what test result do you take?

If your facility has recorded a positive test on the patient, then record positive. With patients now being tested multiple times during their stay, if they test positive at any point, you will record a positive result.