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Oncology & Hematology Coding Alert

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Stay Alert to These Different Ways to Document Cancer and Fatigue

Published on Wed Feb 23, 2022

These two scenarios will help you determine causality. Fatigue and weakness are common in cancer patients, but capturing them with ICD-10-CM codes is a little more difficult than you might think. For one, the terms are not interchangeable, so your coding for the conditions needs to be precise and specific. Second, you must determine whether your provider has documented a link [...]
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