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Research How to Report Radiation Oncology Procedures in ICD-10-PCS

Highlight this character for the radioactive isotope. When you prepare to report a radiology oncology procedure, you need to pay particular attention to characters 3-6, as these specify the radiation, treatment type, modality, and radioactive isotope. Review Your Seven Digit PCS Structure When reporting any ICD-10-PCS code, you have seven characters. You can break them down as follows:

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