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The patient is a 48-year-old woman with a diagnosis of retroperitoneal sarcoma, who had previously undergone resection of a welldifferentiated sarcoma followed by re-excision of local recurrence, ...
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Is it appropriate to utilize patient self-reported documentation to assign codes for social determinants of health, such as information found in categories Z55-Z65, Persons with potential health ha...
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Please define “clinicians” in the context of the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, which allow code assignment for social determinants of health codes based on me...
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A patient undergoes outpatient surgery. A skin lesion of the cheek is surgically removed and submitted to the pathologist for analysis. The surgeon writes on the pathology order, “skin lesion.”...
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A patient presents to the hospital for outpatient x-rays with a diagnosis on the physician’s orders of questionable kidney stone. The abdominal x-ray reveals “bilateral nephrolithiasis with sta...
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A patient undergoes outpatient surgery for removal of a right breast mass. The pre- and post-operative diagnosis is reported as “breast mass.” The pathological diagnosis is fibroadenoma. How sh...
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A referring physician sends a urine specimen to the cytology lab for analysis with a diagnosis of “hematuria” (code R31.9). However, the cytology report, which is authenticated by the pathologi...
The laborato...
A patient presents to the physician’s office with complaints of urinary frequency and burning. The physician ordered a urinalysis and the findings were positive for bacteria and increased white b...
Since this t...