Identify the error in the claim

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Assignment: A 90-year-old white female with a known history of hypertensive kidney disease is referred by her regular internal medicine physician for a cystoscopy. She was treated for urinary tract infection but microscopic hematuria is persistent. A cystourethroscopy was performed under general anesthesia. The urologist removed a small 0.6 cm tumor from the lateral wall of the bladder. The specimen was sent to pathology. A squamous cell carcinoma was diagnosed.

The reported diagnosis codes were: R31.21, C67.2, I12.9, N18.9

The reported procedure codes were: 52000, 52234

• Identify the error in the claim and explain why it might be improperly paid or denied.

• Describe how this error could be remedied.

• Explain in a few sentences the impact of reporting the code(s) incorrectly. Think about reimbursement, compliance, coder performance, reporting, and any other processes that are affected by coding and claim submission.

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