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Wiki Small Cell Metastatic lung cancer
- Thread starter rsweigart
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OCD_coder
True Blue
162.9 Lung cancer, unspecified
ohn0disaster
Guest
Take this note back to your doctor for clarification. I try to drill this into my doctors but I always seem to be taking the metastatic cancers back to them. Tell the doctor to specify the cancer as Metastatic Lung cancer to ____________ or Lung Cancer with ____________ mets or however they feel comfortable writing it. As long as both the primary and secondary cancers are indicated, as it is important to be clear with neoplasms. If you don't have the option of taking the note to the doctor, then you would just have to code it as lung cancer unspecified, which is 162.9.
mitchellde
True Blue
The AHA coding clinics state to code this as lung cancer primary 162.9 with an unknown metastatic site (199.1)