Dig Deep for Diagnosis Coding
Published on Mon Sep 01, 2014
When your physician documents the patient presented for the administration of chemotherapy, submit code V58.11 (Encounter for antineoplastic chemotherapy) as the primary ICD-9-CM code on the claim. Additionally the physician’s documentation here clearly states the patient has a stage IIA non-small cell lung cancer. Since the physician hasn’t provided any further details of the primary lung cancer, you can best [...]
