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Focus ER+ Coding

Published on Wed Apr 12, 2023

Question: I have a pathology report that just indicates, “breast tumor tissue ER 2+.” What are the appropriate procedure and diagnosis codes? Arkansas Subscriber Answer: Because the report lists the estrogen receptor (ER) finding numerically, as ER 2+, the appropriate procedure code would be 88360 (Morphometric analysis, tumor immunohistochemistry [eg, Her-2/neu, estrogen receptor/ progesterone receptor],quantitative or semiquantitative, per specimen, each single antibody [...]
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