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Wiki Nursing Home Coding

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If a resident has cancer and is receiving radiation but it is not the reason the resident is staying in the nursing home, do you still code the cancer diagnosis?
 
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If a resident has cancer and is receiving radiation but it is not the reason the resident is staying in the nursing home, do you still code the cancer diagnosis?
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My doctor codes cancer diagnosis but she normally sees the patient for cancer related pain, so I always make cancer associated pain (338.3) as my primary diagnosis and cancer code as secondary.
 
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