Coding Conventions
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Sanford-Brown
100

What is the Alphabetic Index and the Tabular List  of the ICD-10 coding manual?

The Alphabetic Index is a list of terms and their corresponding code. While the Tabular List is a structured list of codes divided into chapters based on body system or condition.

100

What is the methodology used to select a code that corresponds to the diagnosis or reason for a visit?

You first locate the term in the Alphabetic Index, and then verify the code in the Tabular List. Read and be guided by instructional notations that appear in both the Alphabetic Index and the Tabular List.

100

What is meant by "Confirmed cases" as it relates to coding HIV infections/illnesses?

In this context, “confirmation” does not require documentation of positive serology or culture for HIV; the provider’s diagnostic statement that the patient is HIV positive, or has an HIV-related illness is sufficient.

100
What is a claim form?
What is used to send to insurance companies.
100
This is the color scrubs you must wear in the medical billing and coding program?
What is wine.
200

What is the final level of code division in the ICD-10 Manual?

A code.

200

What is meant by "Use Additional Code" notes found in the tabular List of the ICD-10 manual. 

These notes are used when the code is not a part of the etiology/manifestation pair yet there is still a need to fully describe the condition.

200

What category code defines the infections resistant to antibiotics?

Z16

200
A claim form can be sent to an insurance company two ways. What are they?
What is manually (in the mail) and electronically (by computer).
200
This is the name of the program chair for the medical billing and coding program?
What is Jeannine Wieland.
300

What are Place Holders used for within the ICD-10 Manual?

The ICD-10-CM utilizes a placeholder character “X”. The “X” is used as a placeholder at certain codes to allow for future expansion.

300

What is the process for coding one condition described as Acute (subacute) and Cronic, and separate subentries exist in the Alphabetic Index at the same indentation level?

You code both and sequence the acute (subacute) code first.

300

This is the term for your arms?

What is extremities.

300
A paper claim form is in this color OCR scannable ink?
What is red.
300
Who do you speak to about help with finding a job?
What is Career Services.
400

What are [] used for in the Tabular List versus the Alphabetic Index in the ICD-10 Manual?

Brackets are used in the Tabular List to enclose synonyms, alternative wording or explanatory phrases and in the Alphabetic Index to identify manifestation codes.

400

What Sequela mean as seen in the ICD-10 manual?

A sequela is the residual effect (condition produced) after the acute phase of an illness or injury has terminated.

400
What is another term for patella?
What is kneecap.
400
This is the name of the universal claim form used to submit outpatient charges.
What is CMS-1500.
400
This is completed at the end of your program to showcase your skills and what you learned and is unpaid.
What is externship.
500

What is meant by "In Diseases Classified Elsewhere" found in the ICD-10 Coding Manual? 

It means this is a manifestation code. Codes with this title are a component of the Etiology. Codes with this title should never be listed as 1st or primary diagnosis.

500

What are two processes for the use of "External Cause of Morbidity"?


1.  They should be assigned to identify the cause of the injury(ies) incurred as a result of the hurricane. 2.  The use of external cause of morbidity codes is supplemental to the application of ICD-10-CM codes. 

3.  External cause of morbidity codes are never to be recorded as a principal diagnosis (first-listed in non-inpatient settings). 

4.  The appropriate injury code should be sequenced before any external cause codes. 

5.  The external cause of morbidity codes capture how the injury or health condition happened (cause), the intent (unintentional or accidental; or intentional, such as suicide or assault), the place where the event occurred, the activity of the patient at the time of the event, and the person’s status (e.g., civilian, military).  Etc.

500
What is another term for trunk?
What is chest.
500
This group created and updates the insurance claim forms.
What is NUCC (national uniform claim committee).
500
Where do you go to get textbooks?
What is the bookstore.
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