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12-06-2024 Coding Cystoprostatectomy for Bladder Cancer
Scenario: 2024 Diagnosed with Bladder Cancer treated with Radical Cystoprostatectomy with ileal conduit conversion Question: How would you code the Primary surgery code? A600 Complete
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06 December
Tumor Tip of the Week-11-22-2024 Endocrine Procedures
Scenario: 2024 Diagnosed with Breast Cancer, treated with surgery. Patient found to be BRCA1 positive, thus recommended to have a Risk Reducing Bilateral Salpingo Oophorectomy,
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25 November
Tumor Tip of the Week 11-15-2024 Solid Tumor Rules 2025 Update
Scenario: 2024 TURBT: 3.5cm mass right lateral wall path show urothelial carcinoma & large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma Question: How would you code the histology? 8120/3
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18 November
Tumor Tip of the Week 1-08-2024 Microscopic vs Gross Extrathyroidal extension invading only strap muscles
Scenario: SCAN TEXT: 05/09/2024 Thyroid US- 3.5 cm nodule in Right thyroid lobe. No extrathyroidal mass or LAD. Impression: Dominate R thyroid nodule, mildly suspicious
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11 November
Tumor Tip of the Week 11-01-2024 Substantiate Your Coding -also means substantiating things not done or unknown
Scenario: Colon Cancer case and the CEA and MSI are in the medical record & documented in your lab text. KRAS, BRAF, NRAS were not
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04 November
Tumor Tip of the Week- 10-18-2024 EIN Staging
Scenario 72 yo female presented to physician with post-menopausal bleeding 6/21/2024 Transvaginal US was done which revealed a large, 9.7 cm, endometrial mass with differential
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18 October