Internal Medicine Coding Alert
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Code Malignant Facial Lesion With 173.3
Published on Tue Aug 16, 2011 
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Assign 173.3 (Other malignant neoplasm of skin; skin of other and unspecified parts of face) because the report refers to the primary site of cancer. If the cancer had metastasized from another cancerous site or if treatment was focusing on a secondary site, 198.2 (Secondary malignant neoplasm of skin) would be more fitting.Other Articles in this issue of
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