tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2016 Issue 9

Focus Melanoma Diagnosis with Site, Behavior Documentation

Malignant and in situ are different. Most conditions report to a single code family in ICD-10-CM — but not melanoma. In fact, you’ll need to get familiar with multiple code families if you want to get your melanoma diagnosis right. Turn Here for Primary Malignant Melanoma You’ll probably find the correct code for the bulk of your melanoma cases by turning to C43 (Malignant melanoma of skin). Within this code family, the fourth digit indicates body site, such as C43.1- (Malignant melanoma of eyelid, including canthus) or C43.7- (Malignant melanoma of lower limb, including hip)...

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