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Raise Your Breast Cancer Coding Awareness With This Quiz
Know how to navigate within and beyond the C50.- codes. October is breast cancer awareness month, So, to commemorate this annual campaign to raise awareness about the condition, we’ve put together this quiz to help you become a breast cancer diagnosis coding ace. Question 1: Your oncologist diagnosed a female patient with cancer of both the upper inner and upper outer quadrants of the left breast. How would you code this, and what information could your oncologist provide about the diagnosis that might change the code assignment? Question 2: How would you code a breast mass found in a male patient described in the pathology report as an “infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC) located in the patient’s right nipple and areola”? Question 3: A patient’s breast biopsy comes back from the pathologist with a diagnosis of lipoma. What ICD-10-CM code would you use for this? Question 4: A patient with a family history of breast cancer presents for her annual screening mammography. The patient is asymptomatic and the screening results are negative for any abnormalities. What diagnosis code(s) would you assign in this situation? Think you know the answers? Click here to know the Answers.
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