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Check your diagnosis coding for this patient encounter. A patient presents today to discuss the results of her skin biopsy. Alice came in today for a follow-up visit. We performed a biopsy on her left ear last week. She had reported that she noticed a small lesion a few months ago. It recently began to […]
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The patient was referred to us for re-excision. We did this, and the pathology came back negative with no evidence of tumor.
How should I code our portion? Do I use a benign code with history of SCC?
Thanks for your help!
Michele
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare, aggressive skin cancer that develops from hormone making cells in the skin. Unlike basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma, MCC will often metastasize to the lymph nodes and internal organs. The cure rate is reported at 80 percent for those cases that have not yet metastasized, and drops […]
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I’m having a hard time figuring out how to code a primary eccrine carcinoma of the abdomen. An eccrine carcinoma develops in the sweat glands and metastasizes fairly quickly to other areas of the abdomen. I came up with two codes for it:
C76.2 – Malignant neoplasm of abdomen or C49.4 – malignant neoplasm of soft tissue of abdomen. Anyone have any idea if one of these is right? Or if not, how to code it?? I appreciate any help you can offer!
Thanks,
Michelle