Basic Guidelines
The basic coding guidelines used in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM are very similar
What is True
Number of characters in a ICD-9-CM code compared to ICD-10-CM code?
What is three to five versus three to seven?
ICD-10-CM has added RT/LT/Bilateral to certain codes for increased specification, this defines....
What is added laterality?
Codes that start with the letters A00 - B99
What is certain infectious and parasitic diseases?
Symbols are used in both the ICD-10-CM index and tabular?
True of false?
What is True?
Codes that describe symptoms or signs, as opposed to diagnosis, are acceptable for reporting purposes if one of these has not been established by the provider...
What is a definitive diagnosis?
ICD-9-CM codes are always numeric, ICD-10-CM codes can be?
What are alpha and numeric characters?
This character indicates episode of care....
What is the seventh character extension?
Codes that start with the letter E
What is the Endocrine, Nutritional, and Metabolic diseases E00 - E90
What is used in both the alphabetic index and the tabular list to enclose supplementary words that may be present or absent in the statement of a disease without affecting the code number to which it was assigned...
What are parenthesis ( ) ?
Example: Anemia (essential)(general)(hemoglobin)(infantile)(primary)(profound)
It the same code is described as both acute (subacute) and chronic and separate ________ exist in the alphabetic index at the same indentation level, code both and sequence the acute (subacute) code first.
example: failure renal N19 acute N17.9 chronic N18.9
The first character in a ICD-10-CM code is?
The second through seventh characters are?
What is a alpha character for the first character and alpha or numeric for the second through seventh characters
These are included in many ICD-10-CM obstetrics codes which are not included in ICD-9-CM...
What are trimester?
Codes that start with the letter G
What are diseases of the nervous system?
Used in the tabular list to enclose synonyms, alternative wordings, or explanatory phrases?
What are brackets [ ]?
Example: B06 Rubella [German measles]
There is no ________________ defined as to when a late effect code can or cannot be used.
What is time limit?
Sense Organs (eye, ear) are in the nervous disease and conditions in the ICD-9-CM. Where are they in ICD-10-CM?
What is their own chapters 7 & 8
Late effect in ICD-9-CM is called what in ICD-10-CM?
What is sequela?
Codes that start with the letter Q
What is congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities?
This symbol is used in the tabular list after an incomplete term which needs one or more of the modifiers following it to make assignable to a given category.
What is a colon : ?
Example: G73.7 Myopathy in disease classified elsewhere
Excludes1: Myopathy in: rheumatoid arthritis (M05.032) Sarcoidosis (D86.87) Scleroderma (M34.82)
This code is never used with a code for the late effect...
What is an acute phase of an illness or injury that led to the late effect?
What letter of the alphabet was not being used when ICD-10-CM was introduced?
What is the letter U
Added standard definition for two types of excludes notes, one indicating "not included here"
What is an excludes 2 note?
Codes that begin with the letter N?
Code that begin with the letter K?
What are diseases of the genitourinary system?
What are diseases of the digestive system?
Used in the alphabetic and tabular list at the end of a code number to indicate that a code is incomplete.
What is a dash - ?
Example: Fracture, pathologic ankle M84.47 - M84.44