ICD 10 Coding Alert

Coding Quiz:

Find Answers and Rationale for Breast Cancer Scenarios

Hint: Don’t forget you may need to query a physician. Compare your answers with these solutions. Solution 1: The key to correctly coding this scenario is knowing whether the patient has two distinct lesions, or if the cancer is overlapping the two biopsy sites. The general guidelines accompanying ICD-10-CM Chapter 2 tell you that, “for multiple neoplasms of the same [...]
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