The basic coding guidelines used in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM are very similiar?
What is True?
100
Number of characters in a ICD-9-CM code compared to a ICD-10-CM code?
What is three to five versus three to seven?
100
ICD-10-CM has added RT/LT/Bilateral to certain codes for increased specification, this defines....
What is added laterality?
100
Chapters in ICD-10-CM..
What is 21?
100
Symbols are used in both the ICD-10-CM alpha and tabular index's..
What is True??
200
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?
200
ICD-9-CM codes are always numeric, ICD-10-CM codes can be?
What are alpha and numeric characters?
200
This character indicates episode of care....
What is a seventh character extension?
200
Coding convention requires the ______ condition be sequenced first followed by the manifestation..
What is the underlying condition?
200
Are 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 is assigned..
What is a parenthesis () ?
Example-Anemia (essential)(general)(hemoglobin)(infantile)(primary)(profound)
300
If the same code is described as both acute (subacute) and chronic and seperate _____ exist in the alphabetic index at the same indentation level, code both and sequence the acute (subacute) code first.
What are subentries?
Example-
Failure
Renal N19
Acute N17.9
Chronic N18.9
300
The first character in a ICD-10-CM code is?
What is a alpha character?
300
Are included in many ICD-10-CM obstetrics codes which were not included in ICD-9-CM...
What are trimester codes??
300
Are not used to designate treatment received post initial treatment of an injury, example a cast change performed in the office?
What is an aftercare code?
300
Used in the tabular list to enclose synonyms, alternative wordings, or explanatory phrases.
What are Brackets?
B06 Rubella (German Measles are in square brackets)
400
There is not one defined as to when a late effect code can or cannot be used..
What is a time limit?
400
Combination codes are now available for these types of codes?
What are injury, poisoning, and certain other consequences of external causes codes?
T36.0x1.D Poisoning by penicillins, accidental (unintentional), subsequent encounter
400
Number of weeks acute MI codes changed from...
What is 8 weeks to 4 weeks or less?
400
Used in the tabular list after an incomplete term which needs one or more of the modifiers following it to make it 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)
sicca syndrome (sjogren) (M35.03)
systemic lupus erythematosus (M32.19)
500
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?
500
What letter of the alphabet is not currently being used in ICD-10-CM?
What is letter U?
500
Added standard definition for two types of excludes notes, one indicating "not included here".
What is a excludes 2 note?
500
In chapter 15 pregnancy, childbirth, and the peurerium certain codes require a seventh character to identify the ____ in a multiple gestation that is affected by teh condition being coded.
What is a fetus?
500
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-
carpus M84.44-