Question

according to the icd-10-cm official coding guidelines, if the patient is being admitted for chemotherapy due to a malignancy how would you sequence this? malignancy chemotherapy malignancy then chemotherapy chemotherapy then malignancy question 18 (2.5 points) retake question

Explanation:

Per ICD-10-CM Official Coding Guidelines, when a patient is admitted specifically for chemotherapy treatment of a malignancy, the underlying malignancy is sequenced as the principal diagnosis, with the chemotherapy coded as a secondary diagnosis.

Answer:

Malignancy