C79.6
C79.6 — Secondary malignant neoplasm of ovary
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
C79.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for secondary malignant neoplasm of ovary. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
C79.6 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead C79.6
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share C79. If C79.6 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- C79.0Secondary malignant neoplasm of kidney and renal pelvis
- C79.1Secondary malignant neoplasm of bladder and other and unspecified urinary organs
- C79.2Secondary malignant neoplasm of skin
- C79.3Secondary malignant neoplasm of brain and cerebral meninges
- C79.4Secondary malignant neoplasm of other and unspecified parts of nervous system
- C79.5Secondary malignant neoplasm of bone and bone marrow
- C79.7Secondary malignant neoplasm of adrenal gland
- C79.8Secondary malignant neoplasm of other specified sites
- C79.9Secondary malignant neoplasm of unspecified site
Questions about C79.6
- Is C79.6 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. C79.6 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does C79.6 sit in the tabular list?
- Neoplasms (C00-D49), in the block Malignant neoplasms of ill-defined, other secondary and unspecified sites (C76-C80).