These STEP-BY-STEP solutions are the Best Learning Tool in this course. If you do nothing else, spend an hour a week coding Operative Reports. On our Prep Course we have over 125 Op Reports. No other Coding Prep Course comes close!
CLICK on each BLANK BLACK BOX below TOWARD THE LEFT, to reveal Each Step of the ICD-9 or CPT Solution. 

Try to work as much on your own as possible. Use the hints only when you're stumped.

 Surgical Operation - Adrenalectomy

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Look up the primary term - hypertension in the index
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In the Index find the subterm - Secondary
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Note it states "Due to"
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Find Aldosteronism, primary
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Then in the table find Malignant.
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The ICD-9 Code is 405.09.
   

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