Wiki Metastatic Prostate disease

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Hi,

I got a senario, in assessment documented as metastatic prostate disease. Pls help me in getting the correct code.


Thanking you,

Shiva Prasad

 

[mitchellde]

Coding clinics have stated that this is to be coded as prostate primary site with unknown secondary

 

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Thank you mitchellde. This is verymuch useful.

 

[premin]

Metastatic prostate cancer

Hello,

This should be coded as 185, 199.1, Since there is no specification of primary or secodary as per AHA coding guidelines need to use above mentioned codes for the metastatic prostate cancer.

Thanks,
Prem Kumar Mahalingam.