tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2002 Issue 2

You Be the Coder: History of Cancer Diagnosis

Test your coding knowledge.  Determine how you would code this situation before looking at the box below for the answer. Question: When should a cancer diagnosis be replaced with a "history of cancer" diagnosis code? If the patient had a resection for sigmoid colon cancer two years ago and requires surveillance scopes on occasion, which diagnosis code should be used for those scopes?New York Subscriber   Answer: Although cancer registries typically expect five years to elapse before a diagnosis of cancer is removed, that does not apply to physician ICD-9 coding.  If the patient is cancer-free...

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