Conventions for ICD-10 CM
This code, listed next to a main term in the ICD-10-CM Alphabetic Index, represents the condition that is most commonly associated with the main term or is the unspecified code for the condition.
What is a default code?
This 7th character denotes initial encounter.
What is A?
NEC abbreviation
What is Not Elsewhere Classifable?
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The residual effect (condition produced) after the acute phase of an illness or injury has terminated.
What is a sequela?
It is essential to use both the Alphabetical Index and this when locating and assigning a code.
What is the Tabular List?
This 7th character denotes sequela.
What is S?
NOS abbreviation
What is Not Otherwise Specified?
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What is Mother's Day?
These codes specify whether the condition occurs on the left, right or is bilaterial.
What is Laterality?
These are used in both the Alphabetical Index and Tabular List to enclose supplementary words that may be present or absent in the statement of a disease or procedure with affecting the code number to which it is assigned.
What are parentheses?
This type of excludes note means 'NOT CODED HERE.'
What is type 1 Excludes note?
Codes are titled this for use when the information in the medical record is insufficient to assign a more specific code.
What is Unspecified?
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These are used in the Tabular List to enclose synonyms, alternative wording or explanatory phrases.
What are brackets?
These are 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 are colons?
This note appears immediately under a three-character code title to further define, or give examples of, the content of the category.
What is the Include note?
The abbreviation for Type 1 ST elevation myocardial infarction.
What is STEMI?
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This type of code is used to classify two diagnoses, a diagnosis with an associated secondary process or a diagnosis with an associated complication.
What is a combination code?
ICD-10-CM utilizes this placeholder character at certain codes to allow for future expansion?
What is X?
When this type of excludes note appears under a code, it is acceptable to use both the code and the excluded code together, when appropriate.
What is type 2 Excludes note?
International Classification of Diseases -10th Version-Clinical Modification
What is ICD-10-CM?
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The default type of diabetes when the type is not mentioned in the medical record.
What is Type 2 diabetes mellitus?