Metastatic Tumor Coding - Primary vs. Secondary Cancer

Metastatic Tumor Coding - Defining Primary vs. Secondary Cancer https://www.cco.us/medical-cod....ing-training-certifi
Q: Can someone have a metastatic tumor without having a primary cancer?

A: That’s goes back to the question, metastatic breast, that’s all they say in the documentation. So, what do we need to translate that is? How do we code that? The answer is “no.” A metastatic tumor is always caused by cancer cells from another part of the body. So, if you say “metastatic breast” then we know that that cancer came from someplace else, right? A metastatic tumor is always caused by cancer cells from another body part.

It goes on to say, when that metastatic tumor is found first, the primary cancer can also be found, because they’ll look under the microscope and they’ll say, “This is breast tissue, breast cells, cancer cells in the bone,” so the primary site would be the breast and the secondary site would be the bone.

Now, what if they haven’t determined from all of the tests what the primary is, but they know that the cells that are in the breast are not breast cells? They know it came from someplace else but they haven’t determined where. What do you do? So that’s a metastatic breast. They know because they looked at the cells, Pathology tells them it’s still a secondary cancer.

READ MORE HERE:
https://www.cco.us/metastatic-tumor-coding-cancer/

https://youtu.be/KSNiGUgb6hs

----------------------------------------

CLICK HERE: https://www.cco.us/medical-cod....ing-training-certifi

----------------------------------------

More Information about metastatic tumor coding:

Coding Neoplasms - health-information.advanceweb.com
http://health-information.adva....nceweb.com/Web.../Co
Jul 20, 2012 - If a patient is admitted with metastatic cancer, and the treatment is ... the secondary (metastatic) site, utilize the metastatic cancer code as the ...

Coding Neoplasms Accurately
http://health-information.adva....nceweb.com/.../Codin
Mar 2, 2004 - Metastasis results when the cancer cells migrate from their initial location to ... to ensure appropriate secondary or metastatic site coding.

[PDF]Coding - BCBSGA
https://www.bcbsga.com/.../pw_e2...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia
“history” conundrum of cancer coding… Correctly Coding ... Correctly coding cancer diagnoses has long ... *Metastatic to a specified site = cancer has spread to.

[PDF]Coding Neoplasms - American Health Information ...
http://campus.ahima.org/audio/2007/RB041207.pdf
Apr 12, 2007 - Information Management, including coding and data quality. Kathleen is ...... metastatic cancer, assign codes V58.69, Long-term. (current) use ...

Tip: Coding for cancer - www.hcpro.com
http://www.hcpro.com/HIM-246673-5707/Tip-Coding-for-cancer.html
Feb 18, 2010 - A secondary site or “metastasis” is where the primary neoplasm has spread to another site. Carcinoma in situ is generally a non-invasive ...

Squamous-cell carcinoma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Squamous-cell_carcin
Wikipedia
Unlike basal-cell carcinomas, SCCs carry a significant risk of metastasis, often .... Papillary thyroid carcinoma (Code 8050/3); Verrucous squamous-cell ...

Brain tumor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_tumor
Wikipedia
Secondary or metastatic brain tumors are more common than primary brain tumors, with about half of metastases coming from lung cancer. Primary brain tumors ...

--------------------------------

CLICK HERE: https://www.cco.us/medical-cod....ing-training-certifi

----------------------------------------

People who watched this video:

https://youtu.be/KSNiGUgb6hs

Also searched online for:

Searches related to metastatic tumor coding
metastatic brain tumor
metastatic lung tumor
metastatic bone tumor
metastatic tumor spine
metastatic tumor icd 9
metastatic tumor in neck
metastatic tumor of the jaw
diagnosis code for metastatic cancer

-------------------------------------------

FOR MORE DETAILS: https://www.cco.us/medical-cod....ing-training-certifi

-------------------------------------------

CONNECT WITH US:

http://www.facebook.com/cco.us
http://www.youtube.com/medicalcodingcert
http://www.youtube.com/codingcertification
https://www.pinterest.com/codingcertorg/
https://plus.google.com/+CodingcertificationOrg
https://www.linkedin.com/compa....ny/codingcertificati


------------------------------------------

Don't forget to check out our YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/MedicalCodingCert

--------------------------------------------

#metastaticbraintumor
#metastaticlungtumor
#metastaticbonetumor
#metastatictumorspine
#metastatictumoricd9
#metastatictumorinneck
#metastatictumorofthejaw
#diagnosiscodeformetastaticcancer

--------------------------------------------

VISIT OUR SITE: https://www.cco.us/

• Category

  Unknown Primary