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tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2023 Issue Q4

Coding Quiz Answer: Check Your Breast Cancer Dx Coding Awareness Here

See if your ICD-10-CM guideline knowledge is passable. After you’ve answered the quiz questions on page 3, compare your answers with the following solutions. Solution 1: The key to correctly coding this scenario is knowing whether the patient has two distinct lesions, or if the cancer is overlapping the two biopsy sites. The general guidelines accompanying ICD-10-CM Chapter 2 tell you that, “for multiple neoplasms of the same site that are not contiguous such as tumors in different quadrants of the same breast, codes for each site should be assigned.” Based on that instruction, you would...

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