As the final installment in our four-part Oncology Coding Break series, this session covers the coding essentials for cancers of the female reproductive system. Throughout this series, we’ve explored a variety of cancer coding topics to strengthen skills in histology, grade determination, solid tumor rules, and SSDI coding. In this closing session, we focus on unique considerations for reproductive system cancers, bringing together everything covered in…

The February 2024 Registry Partners Oncology Coding Break presents the topic of grade coding updates. The grade manual coding instructions are reviewed beginning with autopsy grading that has been added to the manual. The findings from the autopsy direct the ODS-C to the correct grade time frame (clinical, post-therapy clinical, pathological, and post therapy pathological) and we cannot assume autopsy grade should be assigned to pathological…

In the Registry Partners October 2023 CTR Coding Break, presenter Monica Reece, RHIT, CTR discusses palliative care definitions as described in our standard setter manuals and goes into detail for the STORE manual palliative care codes. Palliative care reporting tracks care that helps prolong the patient’s life by controlling symptoms, to alleviate pain or to make the patient comfortable.  Pleurx drain placement and thoracentesis procedures are…