Janet Raleigh, RHIA, CTR, has worked with Registry Partners, Incorporated since May 2009. She began her employment as a Project CTR and was promoted to Project Manager in April 2011. Janet has worked on a variety of projects consisting of state report only and accredited cancer program projects and has experience with facilities seeking their initial CoC accreditation. Janet is also a QC Manager. Janet performs…
Are You On A Mission? Registry Partners Incorporated Is! The National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA) 41st Annual Meeting will be held in historic San Antonio, Texas May 20 -23 this year. The official workshop begins on Thursday, May 21st and concludes on Saturday, May 23rd with pre and post optional workshops available. The meeting offers a variety of oncology professionals such as Certified Tumor…
Q: How do you code BCG followed by a TURB for bladder cancer? A: Per FORDS bladder surgery codes: If immunotherapy is followed by surgery of the type coded 20-80 code that surgery instead and code the immunotherapy only as immunotherapy. Surgery code = 27 and immunotherapy code = 01 Q: A breast cancer patient has a sentinel lymph node biopsy followed by a separate…
As many of us are preparing for and completing our 1st quarter Cancer Committee meetings, RQRS and CP3R data will likely be presented for review and discussion. One particular measure, MAC for Breast, stands out due to the drug category coding change of coding chemotherapy agent Herceptin as Biologic therapy/Immunotherapy. Effective with cases diagnosed 1/1/20113 , patients who receive 1 chemotherapy agent + Herceptin will be…
