Medical Insurance 7th Edition by Amy Blochowiak, Joanne Valerius, Nenna Bayes, Cynthia Newby

Exercise 9

Provide the diagnosis code(s) for the following cases, and explain the coding guideline that you applied to the case.
1. A thirty-six-year-old female patient presents to the physician's office for her yearly checkup. During the exam, the physician identifies a palpable, solitary lump in the left breast. The physician considers this significant and extends the exam to gather information for diagnosing this problem.
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2. A forty-five-year-old male patient presents to the office complaining of headaches for the past twenty-four hours. Based on the examination, the physician orders an MRI to investigate a possible brain tumor.
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3. An eighty-six-year-old female patient who has a chronic laryngeal ulcer presents for treatment of a painful episode.
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4. A fifty-eight-year-old female patient has muscle weakness due to poliomyelitis in childhood.
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5. A sixty-four-year-old male patient's diagnosis is degenerative osteoarthritis.
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