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Do Not Miss Diagnosis Code for Metastatic Foci
Published on Tue Jan 07, 2014
Question: What ICD-9-CM code should we use to report prophylactic brain radiation in a patient who has a primary diagnosed in the lung?. Ohio Subscriber Answer: You have multiple codes to consider for this encounter. To report the primary lung cancer, you choose from codes depending upon where the primary source of the neoplasm was found in the lung. 162.3 [...]