You need to know whether your ob-gyn did a limited or complete lymphadenectomy. If your ob-gyn treats a patient with endometrial cancer, you’ll find that procedure codes specific to this complicated type of surgery are hard to come by. Read [...]
Question: A patient who received treatment from our provider for endometrial cancer two years ago returned to our practice, and our provider documented recurrent endometrial adenocarcinoma to the vaginal cuff, stage 1A. Do I document this as metastatic process of [...]
Question: A colorectal surgeon requested that our urologist insert a ureteral catheter during a colorectal procedure. The procedure was inpatient, but ureteral catheter placement is on our outpatient list. What is the correct way to handle this? North Carolina Subscriber [...]
Have multiple primary neoplasms that don't touch? Follow this rule.The American Cancer Society expects more than 47,000 new cases of uterine corpus cancer to be diagnosed in 2012. Prepare yourself to code for these patients in 2012 and 2013 with [...]
You won't find one-to-one matches for all your current codes. If a pathology report comes back with a hyperplasia diagnosis, then you have five possible ICD-9 codes to report. However, in ICD-10, you'll only have three options.Hyperplasia defined: When hyperplasia [...]
Hint: Use a modifier with an existing code to reflect partial work.If your ob-gyn converts a laparoscopic to an open procedure, your coding for endometrial cancer surgeries can drastically transform. Follow these three steps to ward against denials.Review This Op [...]
