tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2023 Issue Q4

ICD-10-CM: Join in Breast Cancer Awareness With This Coding Quiz

Hint: Don’t ignore ‘history’ codes. When providers in your surgery practice perform breast procedures, you often need to assign an ICD-10-CM code once the pathology report is in. October is breast cancer awareness month, and in honor of that annual campaign, we’re here to help you navigate the diagnosis coding task. Look at the following questions, then turn to the solutions once you’ve had a chance to try your hand at answering them. Question 1: Following a biopsy procedure from the upper inner and upper outer left-breast quadrants, the pathology report returns a diagnosis of...

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