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I have a patient that had a screening mammogram with no symptoms - this is her first being used as a baseline. She has a family history of breast cancer - her sister - and physician coded v16.3 on her chart. The mammogram came back abnormal.

Would you code the high risk v76.12 and V16.3 on the radiology along with abnormal mammogram 793.80?

Thanks for any help you can give me
 
Per ICD 9 CM official guidelines, 'Should a condition be discovered during the screening then the code for the condition may be assigned as an additional diagnosis'

In this case, the correct coding is V76.11, 793.80, V16.3 as this is a high risk screening and found abnormal mammogram. You should not assign abnormal mammo as Pdx if it is found on a screening.

Hope that helps.

Brightwin
 
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