Conventions
These are the two main parts of the ICD-10 book
What are the Alphabetical Index and the Tabular List?
These are used to identify manifestation codes in the Index.
What are brackets?
These are the three "elements" of an ICD-10 code.
What are the category (parent code), subcategory, and extension (7th character)?
Place of occurrence is ______.
What is where the injury took place?
What are the external causes, Neoplasm table and the table of drugs/chemicals?
This is necessary when a 7th character is required on an ICD-10 code but the code is only 3, 4, or 5 characters long.
What is a placeholder, "X"?
______ are used in the tabular list to indicate the term needs additional words to be able to use that code.
What are colons?
The ICD-10 code is made up of both letters and numbers. (T/F)
What is "TRUE"?
How the injury occurred is this.
What is the "activity"?
This is how we look up and confirm a code.
What is -start with our term and look up in the alpha index
-check notes/conventions to help with selection
-find code in tab list
-check notes/conventions in tab list
NEC means this.
What is "there is more specific information documented, but there is no code for that level of specificity"?
Parentheses are used in both the tabular and index sections. The words in the parentheses are_______ that help describe a code.
What is "examples"?
What is 7?
The status is what kind of activity was being performed at the time of the injury. (i.e. hobby activity) (T/F)
What is true?
The little red box/"stop sign" next to a code in the tabular list means this.
What is another character/digit is needed?
"Excludes 1" is used when two conditions _____ occur together (example: congenital and acquired)
What is "cannot"?
"NOS" means this.
Each digit in the subcategory of an ICD-10 code represents another ________ of specificity.
What is layer or level?
The external causes are sequenced ______ in the list of codes, unless otherwise directed by a coding not in the ICD-10.
what is Last?
These can ONLY be coded when there is no specific or definitive diagnosis given.
"Use additional code" means this.
What is "an additional or secondary code is need to be able to use the first code"?
Excludes ____ represents "Not Included Here" which mean that a condition excluded is not part of the condition represented by the code.
What is Excludes 2?
The 7th character of a code represents _____.
What is "what level of care the condition is at"?
This is the order that external causes are reported.
What is place of occurrence, activity, status?
This would be an appropriate instance to report the same code.
What is if you're documenting for laterality?