Oncology & Hematology Coding Alert
Try Your Skills Across the Oncology Coding Spectrum
Discover where your strengths lie with these 5 questions Oncology coding requires you to be a jack-of-all-trades and master of all of them. Assess your skills with this wide-ranging quiz, then turn to page 54 to compare your answers to the experts-. 1. Procedure status: Injection and intravenous infusion chemotherapy codes 96401-96417 all have status A on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. What does status A mean? 2. IMRT: How many units of 77301 (Intensity modulated radiotherapy plan, including dose-volume histograms for target and critical structure partial tolerance specifications) should you report per treatment course when you treat multiple targets in the same anatomic site? 3. Diagnosis coding: The physician documents that he can't determine the originating point for a patient's neoplasm involving several defined areas of the uterus. What diagnosis code should you report? 4. HCPCS: True or False: For 6 mg of busulfan, you report one unit of C1178 (Injection, busulfan, per 6 mg). 5. Modifier 25: A patient presents for a laryngoscopy, and the physician performs a routine check of the patient's vital stats. Should you report 31575 (Laryngoscopy, flexible fiberoptic; diagnostic) alone or report 31575 with an E/M code and append modifier 25 (Significant, separately identifiable E/M service by the same physician on the same day of the procedure or other service)?
A. one unit
B. one unit per target
A. 179 -- Malignant neoplasm of uterus, part unspecified
B. 180.8 -- Malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri; other specified sites of cervix
C. 182 -- Malignant neoplasm of body of uterus
D. 182.8 -- Malignant neoplasm of body of uterus; other specified sites of body of uterus
Oncology & Hematology Coding Alert
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