AlainaMichelle
Contributor
Hello,
I'm an HCC coder and have an endocrinologist asking how he can code for personal history of a secondary cancer. The scenario is the patient had primary thyroid cancer that metastasized to lymph nodes. Both are now clinically NED. I believe we can code for personal history of thyroid cancer (V 10.87) and personal history of lymphatic cancers (V10.79). The physician beleives that V10.79 code is only for lymphomas and only for primary cancers. I see nothing that says the personal histories of have to be primary malignancies only. Is there a better way to code this situation?
For HCC coding these codes don't matter so much, but I'd like to give him a good answer.
What do you think? Thank you,
Alaina
I'm an HCC coder and have an endocrinologist asking how he can code for personal history of a secondary cancer. The scenario is the patient had primary thyroid cancer that metastasized to lymph nodes. Both are now clinically NED. I believe we can code for personal history of thyroid cancer (V 10.87) and personal history of lymphatic cancers (V10.79). The physician beleives that V10.79 code is only for lymphomas and only for primary cancers. I see nothing that says the personal histories of have to be primary malignancies only. Is there a better way to code this situation?
For HCC coding these codes don't matter so much, but I'd like to give him a good answer.
What do you think? Thank you,
Alaina