HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2016 Issue 21 (May)

Q&A: Cancer and cardiac coding and sequencing clarification

May 31st, 2016

Q: I have a patient with stage IV lung cancer that presented with fatigue, cough, and loss of appetite. Initially, they thought he had pulmonary nodular amyloidosis, but when they did an echocardiogram on day one they found a pericardial effusion. How would this be sequenced and coded?

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