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ICD - Family history pancreatic CA?

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trinalankford

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This patient has a very strong family history of pancreatic CA, and I'm looking at an ICD-9 code for this. As near as I can tell, *technically* family history of pancreatic CA should be V16.0. However, this code is on a colonoscopy. This is the reason this patient is having her colonoscopy, but is the V16.0 appropriate to use in this case? Family history of pancreatic cancer a risk factor for colon CA?
 
V16.0 is actually family history of malignant neoplasm of the gastrointestinal tract, condition classifiable to 140-159, so since pancreatic cancer falls into that category then V16.0 would be the appropriate code. V16.0 is not just for family history colon cancer
 
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