The ICD-10-CM guideline states: When admission/encounter is for management of an anemia associated with the malignancy, and the treatment is only for anemia, the appropriate code for the malignancy is sequenced as the principal or first-listed diagnosis followed by code D63. 0, Anemia in neoplastic disease.
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Anemia: ICD-10-CM Guidelines Update Clarification
Understand the many nuances of this blood disease to code it correctly. Anemia, according to Mayo Clinic, is a condition in which the body isn’t making Code sequencing matters when the admission/encounter is for management of anemia associated with malignancy, and the treatment is only for the...