Abbreviations
Abbreviations
Terms
Terms
Terms and Such
100
Ambulatory Patient Group
What is APG?
100
ICD-9-CM
What is International classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modifications?
100
an ongoing conditions that exists with another condition for which the patient is receiving treatment
What is comorbidity?
100
codes for the external cause of injury or disease
What are E codes?
100
terms listed in paentheses that provide supplemental information but do not affect the code selection
What is a non essential modifier?
200
CMS
What is Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
200
NEC
What is not elsewhere classified?
200
a structured format stating office policies and procedures for identifying and correcting inaccurate documentation and billing criteria
What is compliance plan?
200
a condition or procedure named afer a person or a place
What is eponym?
200
3-digit root code for the classification of illness, disease or injury
What is rubric?
300
CPT
What is Current Procedure Terminology?
300
HIPAA
What is Health Information Portability and Accountability Act?
300
a disease or condition that arises during the course of or as a result of another disease and that modifies the medical treatment requirements.
What is complication?
300
the cause of a disease
What is etiology?
300
coding a diagnostic statement to the highest degree reportable
What is specificity?
400
DRG
What is Diagnosis Related Group?
400
WHO
What is World Health Organization?
400
terms and symbols used to provide instructions for using diagnostic codes.
What are conventions?
400
another term for volume 2
What is an index?
400
supplemental codes that are used when a patient presents for something other than illness or disease.
What are V codes?
500
DSM-V
What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition?
500
NOS
What is not otherwise specified?
500
directions to look in another area for the correct code
What are cross references?
500
signs or symptoms of a disease
What is manifestation?
500
another name for volume 1
What is Tabular List?
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