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Confirm Secondary Malignancies While Coding Lung Cancer Treatment

Question: A patient is undergoing treatment for lung cancer with prophylactic treatment to the brain. I have found from earlier instances that someone had erroneously coded the treatment for brain cancer. Is it correct? There is no current brain cancer, only lung cancer, but there is allied treatment to the brain. How do we correctly code this? North Dakota Subscriber Answer: No, [...]
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